Automatic roof plane detection and analysis in airborne lidar point clouds for solar potential assessment

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5241-5262

  Jochem, Andreas ^a   Höfle, Bernhard ^b   Rutzinger, Martin ^c   Pfeifer, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D point cloud; Airborne LiDAR; Classification; Clear sky index; Roof plane detection; Segmentation; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

3D POINT CLOUD; AIRBORNE LIDAR; CLEAR SKY; DIRECT AND DIFFUSE RADIATIONS; ERROR ASSESSMENT; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; PLANE DETECTION; SHADOWING EFFECTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL RADAR; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER SUPPLY;

ROOFS;

EID: 77952509728     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90705241     Document Type: Article

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