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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2006.22.4.265

A Feature Based Approach to Extracting Ground Points from LIDAR Data  

Lee, Im-Pyeong (Dept. of Geoinformatics, College of Urban Science, The University of Seoul)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.22, no.4, 2006 , pp. 265-274 More about this Journal
Abstract
Extracting ground points is the kernel of DTM generation being considered as one of the most popular LIDAR applications. The previous extraction approaches can be mostly characterized as a point based approach, which sequentially examines every individual point to determine whether it is measured from ground surfaces. The number of examinations to be performed is then equivalent to the number of points. Particularly in a large set, the heavy computational requirement associated with the examinations is obviously an obstacle to employing more sophisticated criteria for the examination. To reduce the number of entities to be examined and produce more robust results, we developed an approach based on features rather than points, where a feature indicates an entity constructed by grouping some points. In the proposed approach, we first generate a set of features by organizing points into surface patches and grouping the patches into surface clusters. Among these features, we then attempt to identify the ground features with the criteria based on the attributes of the features. The points grouped into these identified features are labeled ground points, being used for DTM generation afterward. The Proposed approach was applied to many real airborne LIDAR data sets. The analysis on the results strongly supports the prominent performance of the proposed approach in terms of not only the computational requirement but also the quality of the DTM.
Keywords
LIDAR; Ground Point; Feature-Based; Grouping; DTM; Surface Patch; Perceptual Cue;
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