Extracting urban features from LiDAR digital surface models

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 65-78

  Priestnall, G ^a   Jaafar, J ^a   Duncan, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital Elevation Model, DEM; Digital Surface Model, DSM; Feature extraction; Filtering; Flood inundation modelling; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL RADAR; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL SURFACE MODEL; SURFACE ELEVATION DATA;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOOD; LAND COVER; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 0034162143     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-9715(99)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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