Automated detection of road manhole and sewer well covers from mobile LiDAR point clouds

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1549-1553

  Yu, Yongtao ^a   Li, Jonathan ^a,b   Guan, Haiyan ^b   Wang, Cheng ^a   Yu, Jun ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Manhole; marked point process; mobile light detection and ranging (LiDAR); point cloud; reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC); sewer well

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RADAR; ROADS AND STREETS;

LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MANHOLE; MARKED POINT PROCESS; POINT CLOUD; REVERSIBLE JUMP MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO;

SEWERS;

EID: 84897116523     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2301195     Document Type: Article

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