• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.575-583
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• 2009

Various algorithms and methods, related to preprocessing of LiDAR data, are being developed and proposed. These methods are two ways, one of them is to use the regular form such as DSM or the image converted from raw LiDAR data, and the other is to use raw LiDAR data directly. The image processing method is one of representative method for the regular grid form data. This method is easy to apply to a numerical analysis technique and has an advantage of modeling and noise elimination through smoothing, but it lose the information during the data conversion. This study apply the image processing method to the irregular raw LiDAR data directly for the extracting ground information with minimized information loss and evaluate the extracting accuracy of ground information.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.293-298
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• 2005

LIDAR의 표고점 데이터는 건물, 수목 등의 개체를 구성하는 비지면점과 순수한 지표면을 나타내는 지면점들이 섞여있기 때문에 이들을 분리하는 과정이 필요하다. 지금까지 연구된 방법들은 몇 가지 입력 요소가 필요하여 완전 자동화를 이루지는 못하고 있으며, 다양한 크기의 개체를 동시에 자동으로 찾아내기 어렵고 경사진 지형에 대해서는 적용하기 어려운 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 원 데이터의 동일 스캔 라인 상에 존재하는 이웃 점들 간의 경사를 이용하여 입력 요소를 최소화하여 개체를 추출하고자 한다. 이웃하는 두 점플 간의 경사를 이용하여 비지면점을 탐지하여 이웃하는 지면점의 높이 값으로 대체하며 갱신된 값을 바로 다음 연산에 반영시킴으로써 윈도우를 사용하거나 그룹화 할 필요가 없다. 또한 갱신된 값을 전파시키기 때문에 복잡한 지붕을 가지는 건물도 추출할 수가 있다. 이와 같은 연산을 두 방향에 대하여 수행하여 경사진 지형에 대하여 적용할 수 있도록 하였으며 천안과 마산지역에 대하여 테스트를 수행하였다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.533-542
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• 2006

Lidar point clouds provide three dimensional information of terrain surface and have a great advantage to generate precise digital elevation model (DEM), particularly over forested area where some laser signals are transmitted to vegetation canopy and reflected from the bare ground. This study initially investigates the characteristics of lidar-derived height information as related to vertical structure of forest stands. Then, we propose a new filtering method to separate ground points from Lidar point clouds, which is a prerequisite process both to generate DEM surface and to extract biophysical information of forest stands. Laser points clouds over the forest stands in central Korea show that the vertical distribution of laser points greatly varies by the stand characteristics. Based on the characteristics, the proposed filtering method processes first and last returns simultaneously without setting any threshold value. The ground points separated by the proposed method are used to generate digital elevation model, furthermore, the result provides the possibilities to extract other biophysical characteristics of forest.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.14 no.4 s.38
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• pp.19-26
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• 2006

This study assessed the accuracies of the ground information extracting methods from the LiDAR data. Especially, it compared two kinds of method, one of them is using directly the raw LiDAR data which is point type vector data and the other is using changed data to DSM type as the normal grid type. The methods using Local Maxima and Entropy methods are applied as a former case, and for the other case, this study applies the method using edge detection with filtering and the generated reference surface by the mean filtering. Then, the accuracy assessment are performed with these results, DEM constructed manually and the error permitted limit in scale of digital map. As a results, each DEM mean errors of methods using edge detection with filtering, reference surface, Local Maxima and Entropy are 0.27m, 2.43m, 0.13m and 0.10m respectively. Hence, the method using entropy presented the highest accuracy. And an accuracy from a method directly using the raw LiDAR data has higher accuracy than the method using changed data to DSM type relatively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.641-650
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• 2011

Airborne LIDAR system, utilized in various forest studies, provides efficiently spatial information about vertical structures of forest areas. The tree height is one of the most essential measurements to derive forest information such as biomass, which can be estimated from the forest terrain model. As the terrain model is generated by the interpolation of ground points extracted from LIDAR data, filtering methods with high reliability to classify reliably the ground points are required. In this paper, we applied three representative filtering methods to forest LIDAR data with diverse characteristics, measured the errors and performance of these methods, and analyzed the causes of the errors. Based on their complementary characteristics derived from the analysis results, we have attempted to combine the results and checked the performance improvement. In most test areas, the convergence method showed the satisfactory results, where the filtering performance were improved more than 10% in maximum. Also, we have generated DTM using the classified ground points and compared with the verification data. The DTM retains about 17cm RMSE, which can be sufficiently utilized for the derivation of forest information.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.41-47
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• 2011

Processing of the raw LiDAR data requires the high-end processor, because data form is a vector. In contrast, if LiDAR data is converted into a regular grid pattern by filltering, that has advantage of being in a low-cost equipment, because of the simple structure and faster processing speed. Especially, by using grid data classification, such as Quadtree, some of trees and cars are removed, so it has advantage of modeling. Therefore, this study presents the algorithm for automatic extraction of ground points using Quadtree and refion growing method from LiDAR data. In addition, Error analysis was performed based on the 1:5000 digital map of sample area to analyze the classification of ground points. In a result, the ground classification accuracy is over 98%. So it has the advantage of extracting the ground points. In addition, non-ground points, such as cars and tree, are effectively removed as using Quadtree and region growing method.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.79-86
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• 2011

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.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.35 no.5_1
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• pp.715-726
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• 2019

With the increasing prevalence of high-resolution satellite images, the need for technology to generate accurate 3D information from the satellite images is emphasized. In order to create a digital terrain model (DTM) that is widely used in applications such as change detection and object extraction, it is necessary to extract trees, buildings, etc. that exist in the digital surface model (DSM) and estimate the height of the ground. This paper presents a method for automatically generating DTM from DSM extracted from KOMPSAT-3A stereo images. The technique was developed to detect the non-ground area and estimate the height value of the ground by using the previously constructed low-resolution topographic data. The average vertical accuracy of DTMs generated in the four experimental sites with various topographical characteristics, such as mountainous terrain, densely built area, flat topography, and complex terrain was about 5.8 meters. The proposed technique would be useful to produce high-quality DTMs that represent precise features of the bare-earth's surface.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.545-554
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• 2019

This research aims to provide a building area extraction approach over the areas where data acquisition is impossible through field surveying, aerial photography and lidar scanning. Hence, high-resolution satellite images, which have high accessibility over the earth, are utilized for the automated building extraction in this study. 3D point clouds or DSM (Digital Surface Models), derived from the stereo image matching process, provides low quality of building area extraction due to their high level of noises and holes. In this regards, this research proposes a hybrid building area extraction approach which utilizes 3D point clouds (from image matching), and color and linear information (from imagery). First of all, ground and non-ground points are separated from 3D point clouds; then, the initial building hypothesis is extracted from the non-ground points. Secondly, color based building hypothesis is produced by considering the overlapping between the initial building hypothesis and the color segmentation result. Afterwards, line detection and space partitioning results are utilized to acquire the final building areas. The proposed approach shows 98.44% of correctness, 95.05% of completeness, and 1.05m of positional accuracy. Moreover, we see the possibility that the irregular shapes of building areas can be extracted through the proposed approach.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.281-286
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• 2005

여러 분야에서 활용성이 증가하고 있는 도시지역에 대한 3차원 모형화 구축은 기존에는 항공사진이나 고해상도 위성영상을 주로 활용하여 왔으나, 최근에는 높은 정밀도를 보장하는 항공LIDAR 측량기법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 특히, 다양한 형태, 크기, 종류의 건물들이 존재하는 광범위한 도시지역을 모형화 하기 위하여 정밀도가 높은 LIDAR 자료를 통하여 신속하고 정확하게 현실에 가까운 건물 모형으로 복원하는 기술 개발이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 LIDAR 관측자료 및 디지털 영상, 수치지도 등의 자료를 활용하여 LIDAR자료의 전처리 과정과 다양한 필터를 적용하여 지면과 비지면 정보를 분류하였으며, LoG 연산자에 의한 건물 경계선 및 특징점 추출기법을 개발하여 도시 지역의 3차원 건물 복원기법을 제안하였다.