Students Sidi Liu and Mark Geeraerts finished their bachelor’s Applied Earth Sciences in great style. Both of them worked on the Noordwijk permanent laser scanning point clouds. Mark developed methods to automatically extract dynamic non-natural objects, like bulldozers, bikers, humans, and ladders, whereas Sidi worked on an automated way to classify these objects into bulldozers and others. Both of them obtained great results: more than 93% of the large dynamic objects (e.g., bulldozers) could be detected using Mark’s methods, and more 92.5% of these could be correctly classified by Sidi.
The theses can be found here:

Mark Geeraerts, “Identifying Dynamic Objects in Coastal Environments”, https://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:09e5b5c2-ef47-4c07-8630-c8487238ba6e

Sidi Liu, “Classifying Bulldozers and Large Dynamic Objects on Sandy Beach Using LiDAR Point Clouds”, https://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0b4c8f0b-3274-4631-9ee3-d1e0aac0dabb