Journal
ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 1-12Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.10.002
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LiDAR; Digital terrain model; Classification
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- Slovenian Research Agency [1000-08-310105, L2-3650, P2-0041]
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This paper considers a new method for the automatic generation of digital terrain models from LiDAR data. The method iterates a thin plate spline interpolated surface towards the ground, while points' residuals from the surface are inspected at each iteration, with a gradually decreasing window size. Top-hat transformation is used to enhance discontinuities caused by surface objects. Finally, parameter-free ground point filtering is achieved by automatic thresholding based on standard deviation. The experiments show that this method correctly determines DTM even in those cases of more difficult terrain features. The expected accuracy of ground point determination on those datasets commonly used in practice today is over 96%, while the average total error produced on the ISPRS benchmark dataset is under 6%. (C) 2011 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS) Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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