On 22 Feburary 2022 three groups of students went to the beach in Noordwijk to collect data for the course 3D-surveying of Civil and Offshore Infrastructure at TU Delft by R. Lindenbergh. The students study how to extract terrain at the beach and how sand-shapes appear from aeolian transport. Another group compares photogrammetry data and laser scanning data of the beach and dunes.

Lot’s of ‘flying sand’ called aeolian sand transport could be observed and will be studied with the help of the collected data.

On 31st January 2022 the laser scanner is scanning under harsh weather conditions. Wind speeds above 12 m/s are reported and heavy rains hit the coasts. In the above point cloud high waves can be seen covering a large part of the usually dry sandy beach.