Urban Digital Twin Platform
Mar 4, 2026·
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Dr. Shabnam Jabari, Associate Professor, P.Eng
Colin Richardson

This project develops scalable workflows for generating and updating urban digital twins from mobile mapping, airborne LiDAR, and optical imagery.
Objectives
- Build LoD2-ready city models for planning and engineering use
- Improve camera-LiDAR registration and quality control
- Support downstream climate, hazard, and infrastructure analytics
Methods
- Multimodal segmentation and feature extraction
- Geometry-aware registration pipelines
- Quality assessment using field and reference datasets
Impact
Outputs support municipal planning, emergency preparation, and data-driven infrastructure management.