Point Clouds and Smart Cities
The Need for 3D Geodata and Geomatics Specialists
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Abstract
The ‘smart city’ concept entirely relies on a permanent stream of massive amounts of data acquired by a great variety of sensors distributed throughout the city. Smart use of all this data requires integration with 3D city maps for which point clouds, acquired by laser scanning or photogrammetry, are the main sources. The author
of this article identifies the abilities of point clouds to support the smart city concept.