articleRemote SensingJun 15, 2016GOLD OA

An Easy-to-Use Airborne LiDAR Data Filtering Method Based on Cloth Simulation

Beijing Normal University · State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Separating point clouds into ground and non-ground measurements is an essential step to generate digital terrain models (DTMs) from airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data. However, most filtering algorithms need to carefully set up a number of complicated parameters to achieve high accuracy. In this paper, we present a new filtering method which only needs a few easy-to-set integer and Boolean parameters. Within the proposed approach, a LiDAR point cloud is inverted, and then a rigid cloth is used to cover the inverted surface. By analyzing the interactions between the cloth nodes and the corresponding LiDAR points, the locations of the cloth nodes can be determined to generate an approximation of…

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