dr. S. Karam (Samer)

Dr. Samer Karam is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Earth Systems Analysis (ESA) Department at the University of Twente.

Samer Karam received his Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Civil Engineering (Geomatics) in 2012 (Aleppo University, Syria). At the end of 2014, he was enrolled in the Geomatics Engineering (GEOENGINE) Master’s program at the University of Stuttgart in Germany and awarded a DAAD scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). In 2016, he worked on 3D building reconstruction from airborne LiDAR data in the remote sensing technology institute at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Later, he moved to the Netherlands and joined the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente as a PhD candidate with the goal of developing a SLAM-based backpack mobile mapping system (ITC_Backpack) for indoor mapping.

Samer has published and presented his work at various conferences, in symposiums and in journals, all within the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry domain. During his PhD trajectory at ITC, he was elected to be a member of the faculty council. He defended his dissertation in October 2021 and is currently working at the University of Twente as a postdoctoral researcher in the INGENIOUS project (www.ingenious-first-responders.eu). The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the Korean government. It has a strong focus on the use of drones to make the work of first responders safer and more effective.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Data Integration
# Disasters
# Drones
# Lasers
# Navigation
# Units Of Measurement

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Indoor Environment

Physics & Astronomy

# Closing

La Guardia, M. , Koeva, M., D’ippolito, F. , & Karam, S. (2022). 3D Data integration for web based open source WebGL interactive visualisation. In M. Aleksandrov, J. Barton, & S. Zlatanova (Eds.), The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: 17th 3D GeoInfo Conference (4/W4-2022 ed., Vol. 48, pp. 89-94). (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives). https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W4-2022-89-2022

Karam, S. , Nex, F., Chidura, B. T. , & Kerle, N. (2022). Microdrone-Based Indoor Mapping with Graph SLAM. Drones, 6(11), 1-26. [352]. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6110352

Karam, S. , Nex, F. C., Karlsson, O., Rydell, J., Bilock, E., Tulldahl, M. , Kerle, N., & Holmberg, M. (2022). Micro and macro quadcopter drones for indoor mapping to support disaster management. In S. Hinz, R. Q. Feitosa, M. Weinmann, & B. Jutzi (Eds.), ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Vol. Volume V-1-2022, pp. 203-210). (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-v-1-2022-203-2022

Karam, S. , Lehtola, V. , & Vosselman, G. (2021). Simple loop closing for continuous 6DOF LIDAR&IMU graph SLAM with planar features for indoor environments. ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 181, 413-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.09.020

Karam, S. (2021). Developing a SLAM-based backpack mobile mapping system for indoor mapping. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036552561

Alsadik, B. , & Karam, S. (2021). The simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM): An overview. Surveying and Geospatial Engineering Journal, 1(2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.38094/sgej1027

Karam, S. , Vosselman, G. , & Lehtola, V. V. (2020). Strategies to integrate IMU and LiDAR SLAM for indoor mapping. In N. Paparoditis, C. Mallet, F. Lafarge, S. Hinz, R. Feitosa, M. Weinmann, & B. Jutzi (Eds.), ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Vol. V-1-2020, pp. 223-230). (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-v-1-2020-223-2020

Karam, S. , Lehtola, V. , & Vosselman, G. (2019). Integrating a low-cost mems imu into a laser-based slam for indoor mobile mapping. In P. Grussenmeyer, A. Murtiyoso, H. Macher, & R. Assi (Eds.), The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: 6th International Workshop LowCost 3D – Sensors, Algorithms, Applications (Vol. XLII-2/W17, pp. 149-156). (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W17-149-2019

Karam, S. , Vosselman, G., Peter, M. , Hosseinyalamdary, S. , & Lehtola, V. V. (2019). Design, Calibration, and Evaluation of a Backpack Indoor Mobile Mapping System. Remote sensing, 11(8), 1-23. [905]. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080905

Karam, S. , Peter, M. , Hosseinyalamdary, S. , & Vosselman, G. (2018). An Evaluation Pipeline For Indoor Laser Scanning Point Clouds. In B. Jutzi, M. Weinmann, & S. Hinz (Eds.), ISPRS TC I Mid-term Symposium Innovative Sensing – From Sensors to Methods and Applications (Volume IV-1) 10–12 October 2018, Karlsruhe, Germany (pp. 85-92). (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences; Vol. IV-1). International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-1-85-2018

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Dr. Samer Karam is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Applied Earth Sciences (AES) at the University of Twente.

Samer Karam received his Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Civil Engineering (Geomatics) in 2012 (Aleppo University, Syria). At the end of 2014, he was enrolled in the Geomatics Engineering (GEOENGINE) Master’s program at the University of Stuttgart in Germany and awarded a DAAD scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). In 2016, he worked on 3D building reconstruction from airborne LiDAR data in the remote sensing technology institute at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Later, he moved to the Netherlands and joined the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente as a PhD candidate with the goal of developing a SLAM-based backpack mobile mapping system (ITC_Backpack) for indoor mapping.