Abstract
More than 9000 sinkholes have been documented by the Geological Survey of Thuringia in different lithological units of Thuringia of which many posed a serious threat on life, personal property and infrastructure. While it is clear that they are caused by hollows which formed due to solution processes within the local bedrock material, little is known about the surface processes and dynamics of erosion of the sinkhole visible above ground. The objective of this study was to analyze sinkhole surface dynamics over time with 3D models derived from terrestrial photos by structure from motion and multi-view 3D reconstruction. The sinkhole was surveyed by terrestrial photos on two days with a two months break. During each photo session 84 and 237 photos have been taken from all around the sinkhole. The photos were processed to 3D point clouds using Agisoft PhotoScan and compared using the software CloudCompare and the M3C2 plugin. The resulting point clouds show an area with significant change that covers about 26% of the sinkhole. Toppling and a few erosion processes have successfully been detected with an observed change of up to 10 cm. Nevertheless, for future studies the study design has to be improved regarding the point cloud registration process, a longer observation duration and a quantitative evaluation of the quality of the individual point clouds is pending.
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The authors are thankful for the support of this research by the Thuringian Agency of Environment and Geology, especially the Geological Survey of Thuringia. We thank for the fruitful collaboration and provision of data and old photographs.
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Petschko, H., Goetz, J., Böttner, M., Firla, M., Schmidt, S. (2017). Erosion Processes and Mass Movements in Sinkholes Assessed by Terrestrial Structure from Motion Photogrammetry
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