Lenné3D

Lenné3D GmbH was founded in Berlin in 2005 as a spin-off of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (Müncheberg), the Zuse Institute (Berlin) and the Hasso Plattner Institute (Potsdam). The company is specialised in software development and services in the field of 3D landscape and vegetation visualisation. The company's own developments are used in our projects and tested before they are distributed as software. The combination of software development and project-related services allows us to meet very specific customer requests. In the year 2000 the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU (a German environmental foundation) sponsored the 'feasibility study for a visualisation tool'. In the framework of the study, users and potential users of professional software for the visualisation of 3D landscapes were questioned in a representative survey. In addition, a case study followed a participatory landscape planning process with interactive 3D computer-game technology. This pilot study identified shortcomings in the existing solutions in the field of 3D landscape visualisation and identified the demand for an innovative tool. The eponymous research project for the computer-graphics-supported stakeholder participation in landscape planning processes was sponsored by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU between 2002 and 2005. Since 2007, Lenné3D has been a business partner of GIS manufacturer Esri. With the experienced managing director Philip Paar (2005-2009) and with the support of the interdisciplinary and highly qualified associates, Lenné3D has developed into a specialist in all fields of landscape visualisation. This accomplishment has been continued since 2010 with Jochen Mülder as managing director. After successful and exciting years in Berlin, Lenné3D moved to Hamburg at the beginning of 2011.