期刊
COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES
卷 42, 期 -, 页码 64-70出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2012.02.011
关键词
TLS; Point clouds; Geomorphology; Sedimentology; Surface roughness
资金
- NERC [NE/G005427/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G005427/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Processing of high-resolution terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds presents methodological and computational challenges before a geomorphological analysis can be carried out. We present a software library that effectively deals with billions of points and implements a simple methodology to study the surface profile and roughness. Adequate performance and scalability were achieved through the use of 64-bit memory mapped files, regular 2D grid sorting, and parallel processing. The plethora of the spatial scales found in a TLS dataset were grouped into the ground model at the grid scale and per cell, subgrid surface roughness. We used centroid-thinning to build a piecewise linear ground model, and studied detrended standard deviation of relative elevations as a measure of surface roughness. Two applications to the point clouds from gravel river bed surveys are described. Linking empirically the standard deviation to the grain size allowed us to retrieve morphological and sedimentological models of channel topology evolution and movement of the gravel with richer quantitative results and deeper insights than the previous survey techniques. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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