Automated extraction of building outlines from airborne laser scanning point clouds

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1399-1403

  Yang, Bisheng ^a   Xu, Wenxue ^a   Dong, Zhen ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning (ALS); building outlines; marked point processes

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; FALSE DETECTIONS; GIBBS ENERGY MODEL; MARKED POINT PROCESS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR;

EXTRACTION; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84886590053     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2258887     Document Type: Article

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