About
Welcome to our Mobile Mapping application! This section will provide information about the purpose of the map, how to use it, and relevant background details.
Mobile Mapping at the ikg
Since 2002, the ikg has been working on environmental data acquisition using laser scanning (LiDAR), both airborne and terrestrial, with a focus on data fusion, interpretation, and automated reconstruction.
In 2012, with the support of the German Research Foundation, we were able to acquire a Mobile Mapping System (Riegl VMX-250), which made it possible to capture large areas with high precision. This system is still in operation today (2025), and its data has been used extensively in teaching and research. It has been deployed in numerous projects, including determining the potential for high-precision maps, monitoring parking space, detecting changes in the environment over time, semantic segmentation, and robust positioning. Several doctoral dissertations at ikg were based on Mobile Mapping data.
The requirements from research projects and doctoral work led to specific locations and intervals for data acquisition. However, when no project-based mapping was scheduled, we aimed to gradually complete the coverage of Hannover.
Here is the result! In total, more than 250 billion 3D points were collected. For the interactive map shown here, we created a visualization indicating the height difference between the highest and lowest 3D point at each location, color-coded using a "temperature" scale from blue to red.
Enjoy exploring!
Purpose and usage of the map
Coming soon...
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Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics (ikg)
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Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz University Hannover
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