An easy-to-use airborne LiDAR data filtering method based on cloth simulation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Wuming ^a   Qi, Jianbo ^a   Wan, Peng ^a   Wang, Hongtao ^b   Xie, Donghui ^a   Wang, Xiaoyan ^a   Yan, Guangjian ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloth simulation; Ground filtering algorithm; LiDAR point cloud

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; CLOTH SIMULATION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FILTERING ALGORITHM; GROUND FILTERING; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; LIDAR POINT CLOUDS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84974785092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8060501     Document Type: Article

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