Extraction of vehicle groups in airborne lidar point clouds with two-level point processes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1475-1489

  Borcs, Attila ^a,b   Benedek, Csaba ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aerial laser scanning; Light detection and ranging (Lidar); Marked point process (MPP); Urban; Vehicle

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; VEHICLES;

DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR; GRID-BASED APPROACH; LASER SCANNING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MARKED POINT PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; URBAN;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84907463647     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2344438     Document Type: Article

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