An algorithm for automatic road asphalt edge delineation from mobile laser scanner data using the line clouds concept

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Cabo, Carlos ^a   Kukko, Antero ^b   García Cortés, Silverio ^a   Kaartinen, Harri ^b   Hyyppä, Juha ^b   Ordoñez, Celestino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

3D road extraction; Line clouds; Mobile laser scanning; Road edges; Road management; Scanning lines; Smoothing window

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY PLANNING; LASER APPLICATIONS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION;

LASER SCANNING; ROAD EDGES; ROAD EXTRACTION; ROAD MANAGEMENT; SCANNING LINES; SMOOTHING WINDOWS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 85019620275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090740     Document Type: Article

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