A Comparison of Evaluation Techniques for Building Extraction from Airborne Laser Scanning

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-20

  Rutzinger, Martin ^a,b   Rottensteiner, Franz ^c,d   Pfeifer, Norbert ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning (ALS); automatic building extraction; metrics; object detection; object based error assessment; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING (ALS); AUTOMATIC BUILDING EXTRACTION; METRICS; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT-BASED ERROR ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

BUILDINGS; ERROR DETECTION; LANDING; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; METRIC SYSTEM; SCANNING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; BUILDING; DETECTION METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 66149101328     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2012488     Document Type: Article

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