• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.43-52
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• 2009

LIDAR data, as the source of the 3D information of buildings, are used many modeling fields such as three-dimensional city models in urban planning and the visibility analysis of buildings. This study suggests a methodology, that is characterized by combining image-based and point-based process, for minimizing the user's intervention and automatically extracting building boundary only using the LIDAR data. Image processing methodology is firstly used to separate building and non-building regions from LIDAR data. Moreover, building regions are then classified main roof into remaining parts by the statistical analysis of height values, and the remaining parts are processed separately. Through the experimental results of study areas which exist many types of buildings, for example, apartment-type, stair-type, complex-type, etc. Approximately 90% building boundaries are automatically extracted by the proposed methodology.