HELIOS++ generates synthetic point clouds for customized virtual scenes and many platforms and scanning devices.
Open Source Tools and Data
This website can be accessed via a short URL: www.uni-heidelberg.de/3dgeo-opensource
Open Source Research Software

Open source Python library for geographic change analysis in 4D point cloud data

Open source software with an object-based library to provide a database interface and REST API of vegetation tree objects that were captured as 3D point clouds.

AFwizard - Adaptive Filtering Wizard
Python package to enhance the productivity of ground point filtering workflows in archaeology and beyond.

VOSTOK – Voxel Octree Solar Toolkit
VOSTOK provides solar potential estimations in point clouds, including occlusion effects of 3D neighborhoods.
Web Services

3D-Micro-Mapping of tree stem positions from point cloud profiles.

A collection of point cloud flights, project documentations, manuals, etc.

3D models and point clouds

Our point clouds in the great Potree point cloud renderer (Schütz et al. 2020).
Open Source Datasets




Table of datasets
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![]() | 3D Point Cloud from Nakadake Sanroku Kiln Site Center, Japan: Sample Data for the Application of Adaptive Filtering with the AFwizard |
![]() | 3D Micro-Mapping of Subsidence Stations [Source Code and Data] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Terrestrial, UAV-borne, and airborne laser scanning point clouds of central European forest plots, Germany, with extracted individual trees and manual forest inventory measurements |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Terrestrial, UAV-borne, and airborne laser scanning point clouds of central European forest plots, Germany, with extracted individual trees and manual forest inventory measurements |
![]() | Digital Elevation Model from raw CoSSC TanDEM-X data (2015) in the area of Trail Valley Creek, Northwest Territories, Canada |
![]() | Airborne laser sanning point clouds of Trail Valley Creek, NWT, Canada |
![]() | GNSS Measurements Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk-Highway (ITH) and Trail Valley Creek (TVC) |
![]() | Topsoil temperature data below different vegetation types at Trail Valley Creek, Canada, 2016-2018 |
![]() | M3C2-EP: Pushing the limits of 3D topographic point cloud change detection by error propagation [Data and Source Code] |
![]() | Correspondence-driven plane-based M3C2 for quantification of 3D topographic change with lower uncertainty [Data and Source Code] |
![]() | Terrestrial laser scanning point clouds and DEM at Samoylov in 2017 |
![]() | Multisensor ground-based measurements of the permafrost thaw subsidence in the Trail Valley Creek, NWT, Canada |
![]() | Fully Automatic Spatiotemporal Segmentation of 3D LiDAR Time Series for the Extraction of Natural Surface Changes [Source Code, Validation Material and Validation Results] |
![]() | Improving change analysis from near-continuous 3D time series by considering full temporal information [Data and Source Code] |
![]() | Terrestrial laser scanning data of the Nesslrinna landslide close to Obergurgl, Austria acquired during the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research |
![]() | Terrestrial laser scanning data of the Äußeres Hochebenkar rock glacier close to Obergurgl, Austria acquired during the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research |
![]() | Terrestrial and unmanned aerial vehicle images and point clouds of the Rotmoos valley near Obergurgl, Austria with coordinates of corresponding ground control points acquired during the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research |
![]() ![]() | Point clouds of measurements in the Dechen Cave near Iserlohn, Germany. |
![]() | Capturing complex star dune dynamics - Repeated highly accurate surveys combining multitemporal 3D topographic measurements and local wind data |
![]() ![]() ![]() | UAV-Photogrammetry, UAV laser scanning and terrestrial laser scanning point clouds of the inland dune in Sandhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
![]() | Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) Point Clouds of the Inuvik-Tuktuyaktuk-Highway, NWT, Canada (2018) |
![]() | Airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds with full-waveform (FWF) data of central European forest plots, Germany |
![]() | A six month high resolution 4D geospatial stationiary laser scan dataset of the Kijkduin beach dune system, The Netherlands |
![]() ![]() | UAV laser scanning and terrestrial laser scanning point clouds of snow-on and snow-off conditions of a forest plot in the black forest at Hundseck, Baden-Württemberg, Germany [data]. |
![]() | Hourly Terrestrial Laser Scanning Point Clouds of Snow Cover in the Area of the Schneeferner, Zugspitze, Germany. |
![]() | Manually labeled terrestrial laser scanning point clouds of individual trees for leaf-wood separation |