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Misclassified Area Detection Algorithm for Aerial LiDAR Digital Terrain Data  

Kim, Min-Chul (국토연구원 국토인프라GIS 연구본부)
Noh, Myoung-Jong (인하대학교 지리정보공학과)
Cho, Woo-Sug (인하대학교 토목공학과)
Bang, Ki-In (인하대학교)
Park, Jun-Ku (인하대학교 지리정보공학과)
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Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science / v.19, no.1, 2011 , pp. 79-86 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, aerial laser scanning technology has received full attention in constructing DEM(Digital Elevation Model). It is well known that the quality of DEM is mostly influenced by the accuracy of DTD(Digital Terrain Data) extracted from LiDAR(Light Detection And Ranging) raw data. However, there are always misclassified data in the DTD generated by automatic filtering process due to the limitation of automatic filtering algorithm and intrinsic property of LiDAR raw data. In order to eliminate the misclassified data, a manual filtering process is performed right after automatic filtering process. In this study, an algorithm that detects automatically possible misclassified data included in the DTD from automatic filtering process is proposed, which will reduce the load of manual filtering process. The algorithm runs on 2D grid data structure and makes use of several parameters such as 'Slope Angle', 'Slope DeltaH' and 'NNMaxDH(Nearest Neighbor Max Delta Height)'. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm quite well detected the misclassified data regardless of the terrain type and LiDAR point density.
Keywords
LiDAR; DTD(Digital Terrain Data); 2D Grid Structure; Plane Fitting; Eigen-vector;
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