Sander Oude Elberink

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187

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About

Sander Oude Elberink is a leading expert in 3D geoinformation and urban digital twins, with a research focus on point cloud processing, semantic segmentation, and the integration of geospatial data for smart city applications. His most cited work, the 2022 review "Digital twin of a city: Review of technology serving city needs" (187 citations), provides a foundational framework for understanding how digital twins can be adapted from manufacturing to serve the complex, dynamic ecosystem of cities. This paper critically examines what an urban digital twin should contain and how it must be orchestrated to enhance urban efficiency and decision-making. Oude Elberink’s broader contributions include advancing automated methods for extracting building models from LiDAR data and developing techniques for change detection in 3D city models, which have been instrumental in enabling real-time urban monitoring and planning. His work has garnered significant attention, with multiple papers cited over 100 times, reflecting its impact on both academia and industry. As a senior researcher at the University of Twente’s Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), he continues to shape the future of smart, data-driven cities.