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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B2-2026-1117-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Augmenting City Models with Handheld LiDAR and 3D Gaussian Splatting for Inclusive Pedestrian Infrastructure Assessment</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Suwardhi</surname>
<given-names>Deni</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Andika</surname>
<given-names>Wahyunan</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Widyastuti</surname>
<given-names>Ratri</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fadilah</surname>
<given-names>Widiaomoko Azis</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Murtiyoso</surname>
<given-names>Arnadi</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Grusennmeyer</surname>
<given-names>Pierre</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7292-2755</ext-link>
</name>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Remondino</surname>
<given-names>Fabio</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6097-5342</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Helmy</surname>
<given-names>Farhan</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Spatial System and Cadastral Research Group, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>PT Inovasi Mandiri Pratama, Spatial Information Company, Indonesia</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, INSA Strasbourg, ICube Laboratory UMR 7357, Photogrammetry and Geomatics Group, 67000, Strasbourg, France</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>3D Optical Metrology (3DOM) Unit, Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Trento, Italy</addr-line>
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<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Advanced System Computing, Design and Innovation (ASCODI) Laboratory, Indonesia</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLIX-B2-2026</volume>
<fpage>1117</fpage>
<lpage>1124</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Deni Suwardhi et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<abstract>
<p>Urban digital twins increasingly require pedestrian-scale three-dimensional (3D) representations to support accessibility and inclusiveness assessment. However, existing approaches typically emphasize either geometric accuracy or visual realism, while lacking an integrated framework for analysing pedestrian-level conditions. This study proposes a hybrid workflow integrating handheld LiDAR and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) within a CityGML-based semantic framework for accessibility assessment. Handheld LiDAR provides centimetre-level geometric measurements, enabling the extraction of key indicators such as slope, surface roughness, and obstacle presence. In parallel, 3DGS reconstruction from 360&amp;deg; video imagery enhances visual realism and perceptual understanding. Both datasets are co-registered and structured within the CityGML 3.0 Transportation model to represent pedestrian environments in a unified spatial and semantic framework. Accessibility assessment was conducted using three approaches: LiDAR-based analysis, field survey observations, and immersive evaluation in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment. The LiDAR-based results were used as reference. Comparative analysis shows that field survey assessment achieves an agreement of approximately 85.7%, while VR-based assessment reaches approximately 75.4%. The results indicate that while VR does not replace metric-based analysis, it enables perception-driven and participatory evaluation. In particular, VR-based assessment shows potential to involve users, including people with disabilities, in accessibility evaluation through immersive and remote interaction. The proposed approach contributes to the development of human-scale urban digital twins by integrating metric accuracy, semantic structure, and participatory evaluation for more inclusive accessibility analysis.</p>
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