Extraction of vertical walls from mobile laser scanning data for solar potential assessment

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 650-667

  Jochem, Andreas ^a,b   Höfle, Bernhard ^c   Rutzinger, Martin ^b,d  

^a AlpS Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Technologies   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D feature extraction; 3D horizon; 3D point cloud; Mobile laser scanning; Solar potential

Indexed keywords

3-D FEATURE EXTRACTION; 3D HORIZON; 3D POINT CLOUD; MOBILE LASER SCANNING; SOLAR POTENTIAL;

CLOUD COMPUTING; FACADES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; RATING; SCANNING; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 80051992417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3030650     Document Type: Article

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