One billion points in the cloud - An octree for efficient processing of 3D laser scans

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 76-88

  Elseberg, Jan ^a   Borrmann, Dorit ^a   Nüchter, Andreas ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data compression; Frustum culling; Nearest neighbor search; Octree; RANSAC; Ray casting; Tree data structure

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; DATA HANDLING; DATA STRUCTURES; LASERS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

FRUSTUM CULLING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; OCTREE; RANSAC; RAY CASTING; TREE DATA STRUCTURES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; DATA PROCESSING; LASER; SPATIAL DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84873249202     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.10.004     Document Type: Article

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