A new approach for semi-automatic rock mass joints recognition from 3D point clouds

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-52

  Riquelme, Adrián J ^a   Abellan A ^b   Tomas R ^a   Jaboyedoff, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D point cloud; Discontinuities; LiDAR; Rock mass; Semi automatic detection; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; OPTICAL RADAR; ROCK MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D POINT CLOUD; DISCONTINUITIES; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; ROCK MASS; ROCK MASS CHARACTERIZATION; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; STRAIGHT-FORWARD METHOD;

ROCKS;

ALGORITHM; DISCONTINUITY; LIDAR; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; ROCK MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

EID: 84899114077     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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