Hannah Weiser

Hannah Weiser is a M.Sc. student of Geography and student assistant at the 3D Geospatial Data Processing Research Group at the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University.

Research Interests

• 3D geodata processing and geoinformation extraction
• 3D vegetation modelling
• Virtual Laser Scanning - LiDAR Simulation

Projects

• SYSSIFOSS – Synthetic structural remote sensing data for improved forest inventory models
• HELIOS++ - Heidelberg LiDAR Operations Simulator

Publications

• Winiwarter, L., Esmorís Pena, A., Weiser, H., Anders, K., Martínez Sanchez, J., Searle, M., Höfle, B. (2022): Virtual laser scanning with HELIOS++: A novel take on ray tracing-based simulation of topographic full-waveform 3D laser scanning. Remote Sensing of Environment, 269. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112772
• Weiser, H., Winiwarter, L., Anders, K., Fassnacht, F.E., Höfle, B. (2021): Opaque voxel-based tree models for virtual laser scanning in forestry applications. Remote Sensing of Environment, 265, pp. 95-113. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112641

• Weiser, H., Winiwarter, L., Schäfer, J., Fassnacht, F.E., Anders, K., Esmoris Pena, A.M. & Höfle, B. (2021): Virtual laser scanning (VLS) in forestry – Investigating appropriate 3D forest representations for LiDAR simulations with HELIOS++. In: EGU General Assembly 2021. Vol. EGU21 (EGU21-9178), pp. 1-2.

• Weiser, H., Schäfer, J., Winiwarter, L., Krašovec, N., Seitz, C., Schimka, M., Anders, K., Baete, D., Braz, A.S., Brand, J., Debroize, D., Kuss, P., Martin, L.L., Mayer, A., Schrempp, T., Schwarz, L.-M., Ulrich, V., Fassnacht, F.E. & Höfle, B. (2022): Terrestrial, UAV-borne, and airborne laser scanning point clouds of central European forest plots, Germany, with extracted individual trees and manual forest inventory measurements. PANGAEA. DOI: DOI:10.1594/PANGAEA.942856.

Curriculum Vitae

• since 10/2018: Student/Research Assistant at the 3DGeo Research Group, GIScience, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University.
• 04/2020: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). Thesis: Simulating LiDAR surveys using voxel-based tree models
• 10/2016-04/2020: Bachelor Studies of Geography, Heidelberg University