A combination of laser scanning and digital photos also opens up new opportunities for infrastructure planning:

3D modeling offers town planners a golden opportunity to simulate planned changes to the current town layout in terms that are as close as possible to reality. Properties, buildings, natural surroundings and infrastructure can be captured in detail and modeled using laser scanning data. When laser data and digital orthophotos are combined into 3D models all involved in the planning process can view every current cityscapes or planned development in virtual reality.

New opportunities are also opened up in road construction, for planning and maintenance. For example with regard to the condition of roads, verges, median strips and embankments. A flight survey can be used to document both a road’s original condition and changes over time e.g. carriageway depressions, surface rippling, carriageway sink, as well as lane grooves and ruts including the length and depth of these. Fundamental foundations
in planning new routes are exact terrain models. Hansa Luftbild can deliver corridor mapping with exact data.

The same technology also opens up new opportunities for planning, maintenance and documentation of rail systems. Complete details in all perspectives are available through laser scanning in combination with digital orthophotos: rails, sleepers, embankments, signals, masts, overhead lines.