Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs12050829
Keywords
correlations; terrestrial laser scanning; deformation; B-splines; surface modelling; bootstrapping; Matern covariance function; Hausdorff distance; averaged Hausdorff distance
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- Open Access fund of Leibniz Universitat Hannover
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The choice of an appropriate metric is mandatory to perform deformation analysis between two point clouds (PC)-the distance has to be trustworthy and, simultaneously, robust against measurement noise, which may be correlated and heteroscedastic. The Hausdorff distance (HD) or its averaged derivation (AHD) are widely used to compute local distances between two PC and are implemented in nearly all commercial software. Unfortunately, they are affected by measurement noise, particularly when correlations are present. In this contribution, we focus on terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) observations and assess the impact of neglecting correlations on the distance computation when a mathematical approximation is performed. The results of the simulations are extended to real observations from a bridge under load. Highly accurate laser tracker (LT) measurements were available for this experiment: they allow the comparison of the HD and AHD between two raw PC or between their mathematical approximations regarding reference values. Based on these results, we determine which distance is better suited in the case of heteroscedastic and correlated TLS observations for local deformation analysis. Finally, we set up a novel bootstrap testing procedure for this distance when the PC are approximated with B-spline surfaces.
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