In Bratislava, a hands-on international hackathon and implementation testbed will explore how to convert 3D point clouds into practical information for urban tree management.

The benchmark will compare sensors, processing workflows, and operational readiness under real-world urban conditions.

It brings together academic and research institutions, stakeholders and hardware and software producers and aims to inform cities, municipalities, utility companies, parking management agencies, parks and recreation teams about how these procedures can support the practical application of urban tree management.

For data acquisition, the RIEGL terrestrial 3D laser scanners VZ-400i and VZ-600i, as well as the RIEGL VMX-2HA Mobile Mapping System, will be deployed to provide highly accurate and meaningful measurement data of Bratislava’s trees - ranging from individual roadside and pavement trees to open-grown park trees and complex vegetation scenarios where segmentation and tree matching become increasingly challenging.

RIEGL’s LiDAR expert in Forestry, Bernhard Groiss, and our distribution partner for Slovakia, Markos Pasko of Expert for 3D Landscape, spol. S r.o., well be onsite to support the initiative.

Explore the details of the hackathon here.