AI for classifying 3D point clouds to create digital twins of built infrastructure
3.2.2 Scanning, Punktwolken und KI

AI for classifying 3D point clouds to create digital twins of built infrastructure

Urbane Digitale Zwillinge und Smart Cities
KI & Geoinformationen
Mobile Mapping und Laserscanning
Thursday, Oct 9, 2025
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Europe/Berlin
INTERGEO Conference | Transparenz 1 (with translation/mit Übersetzung)
English
About
The use of mobile mapping vehicles to capture the environment of infrastructure networks, such as roads, is well established today. Infrastructure operators, including cities and state agencies, either operate their own mapping systems or contract service providers to regularly capture 3D point clouds, image data, and even subsurface radar data. However, this data is often used only for isolated, site-specific viewing or manual analyses. Cross-application utilization and a comprehensive view of entire infrastructure networks are frequently missing, leaving much of the data’s potential untapped. To address this, the goal should be to leverage the collected data across a range of applications, such as planning, monitoring, and strategic decision support, by turning it into a digital twin of the infrastructure. We demonstrate how modern sensing technologies, AI-based analytics, and scalable system architectures can be used to generate detailed digital twins that support both maintenance activities and predictive infrastructure planning. We present several use cases from road, rail, and powerline networks to illustrate the versatility and applicability of this approach.