Automatic vehicle extraction from airborne LiDAR data using an object-based point cloud analysis method

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8405-8423

  Zhang, Jixian ^a,b   Duan, Minyan ^a,b   Yan, Qin ^c   Lin, Xiangguo ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

^c National Administration of Surveying   (China)

Author keywords

Connected component analysis; Digital elevation models; Filtering; Mean shift; Point cloud segmentation; Shape

Indexed keywords

CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MEAN SHIFT; POINT CLOUD SEGMENTATION; SHAPE;

FILTRATION;

EID: 84907459022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098405     Document Type: Article

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