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2. Evaluating the Accuracy of iPhone Lidar Sensor for Building Façades Conservation
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Abbas, Sahar F., Abed, Fanar M., Pisello, Anna Laura, Editorial Board Member, Hawkes, Dean, Editorial Board Member, Bougdah, Hocine, Editorial Board Member, Rosso, Federica, Editorial Board Member, Abdalla, Hassan, Editorial Board Member, Boemi, Sofia-Natalia, Editorial Board Member, Mohareb, Nabil, Editorial Board Member, Mesbah Elkaffas, Saleh, Editorial Board Member, Bozonnet, Emmanuel, Editorial Board Member, Pignatta, Gloria, Editorial Board Member, Mahgoub, Yasser, Editorial Board Member, De Bonis, Luciano, Editorial Board Member, Kostopoulou, Stella, Editorial Board Member, Pradhan, Biswajeet, Editorial Board Member, Abdul Mannan, Md., Editorial Board Member, Alalouch, Chaham, Editorial Board Member, Gawad, Iman O., Editorial Board Member, Nayyar, Anand, Editorial Board Member, Amer, Mourad, Series Editor, Bezzeghoud, Mourad, editor, Ergüler, Zeynal Abiddin, editor, Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús, editor, Jat, Mahesh Kumar, editor, Kalatehjari, Roohollah, editor, Bisht, Deepak Singh, editor, Biswas, Arkoprovo, editor, Chaminé, Helder I., editor, Shah, Afroz Ahmad, editor, Radwan, Ahmed E., editor, Knight, Jasper, editor, Panagoulia, Dionysia, editor, Kallel, Amjad, editor, Turan, Veysel, editor, Chenchouni, Haroun, editor, Ciner, Attila, editor, and Gentilucci, Matteo, editor
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- 2024
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3. Reconstructing Façade Details Using MLS Point Clouds and Bag-of-Words Approach
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Froech, Thomas, Wysocki, Olaf, Hoegner, Ludwig, Stilla, Uwe, Cartwright, William, Series Editor, Gartner, Georg, Series Editor, Meng, Liqiu, Series Editor, Peterson, Michael P., Series Editor, Kolbe, Thomas H., editor, Donaubauer, Andreas, editor, and Beil, Christof, editor
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- 2024
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4. Automatic Extracting Road Edges from Mobile Laser Scanner Point Cloud
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Phan, Anh Thu Thi, Huynh, Anh Vy Ngoc, di Prisco, Marco, Series Editor, Chen, Sheng-Hong, Series Editor, Vayas, Ioannis, Series Editor, Kumar Shukla, Sanjay, Series Editor, Sharma, Anuj, Series Editor, Kumar, Nagesh, Series Editor, Wang, Chien Ming, Series Editor, Cui, Zhen-Dong, Series Editor, Reddy, J. N., editor, Luong, Van Hai, editor, and Le, Anh Tuan, editor
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- 2024
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5. Optimizing Mobile Laser Scanning Accuracy for Urban Applications: A Comparison by Strategy of Different Measured Ground Points.
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Běloch, Lukáš and Pavelka, Karel
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POINT cloud ,GLOBAL Positioning System ,LASERS ,CITIES & towns ,TREE houses ,OPTICAL scanners - Abstract
Mobile mapping systems are part of modern data collection in geodesy. It is one of many surveying methods where field collection is performed in a short time. Among their advantages are cost savings and better visualisation than classic surveying methods. This article is focused on accuracy determinations in urban built-up areas of mobile laser scanning using the Riegl VMX-2HA system. These areas, where there is a combination of dense housing and trees, are an integral part of cities. Their diversity and complexity make surveying by other surveying methods time-consuming and complicated. In particular, the GNSS RTK method encounters problematic locations where sky obscuration by surrounding elements reduces measurement accuracy. Data collection was performed on a test base in the city of Pilsen, Czech Republic. The base includes 27 control points and more than 100 checkpoints. Two sets of coordinates were created for the points; the first set is calculated using tied net adjustment and the second one is determined by RTK GNSS measurements. Point cloud calculations were processed in RiPROCESS software from Riegl, using different configurations and qualities of the control points. Each point cloud was analysed including the determination of point cloud deviations. This article is also dedicated to the identification of problematic spots, where measurement can be degraded. The results presented in this paper show the influence of the quality and different spacing of the control points on the point cloud, its accuracy compared to the precise points, and the global and local deformation of the point cloud. This work can be used as a basis for replacing classical surveying methods with a more efficient mobile laser scanning method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Tree Diameter at Breast Height Extraction Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Cloud.
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Sheng, Yuhao, Zhao, Qingzhan, Wang, Xuewen, Liu, Yihao, and Yin, Xiaojun
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POINT cloud ,AIRBORNE lasers ,OPTICAL scanners ,STANDARD deviations ,SCANNING systems ,TREE farms - Abstract
The traditional measurement method (e.g., field survey) of tree diameter circumference often has high labor costs and is time-consuming. Mobile laser scanning (MLS) is a powerful tool for measuring forest diameter at breast height (DBH). However, the accuracy of point cloud registration seriously affects the results of DBH measurements. To address this issue, this paper proposes a new method for extracting tree DBH parameters; it achieves the purpose of efficient and accurate extraction of tree DBH by point cloud filtering, single-tree instance segmentation, and least squares circle fitting. Firstly, the point cloud data of the plantation forest samples were obtained by a self-constructed unmanned vehicle-mounted mobile laser scanning system, and the ground point cloud was removed using cloth simulation filtering (CSF). Secondly, fast Euclidean clustering (FEC) was employed to segment the single-tree instances, and the point cloud slices at breast height were extracted based on the point sets of single-tree instances, which were then fitted in two dimensions using the horizontally projected point cloud slices. Finally, a circle fitting algorithm based on intensity weighted least squares (IWLS) was proposed to solve the optimal circle model based on 2D point cloud slices, to minimize the impact of misaligned point clouds on DBH measures. The results showed that the mean absolute error (MAE) of the IWLS method was 2.41 cm, the root mean square error (RMSE) was 2.81 cm, and the relative accuracy was 89.77%. Compared with the random sample consensus (RANSAC) algorithm and ordinary least squares (OLS), the MAE was reduced by 36.45% and 9.14%, the RMSE was reduced by 40.90% and 12.26%, and the relative accuracy was improved by 8.99% and 1.63%, respectively. The R
2 value of the fitted curve of the IWLS method was the closest to 1, with the highest goodness of fit and a significant linear correlation with the true value. The proposed intensity weighted least squares circle-fitting DBH extraction method can effectively improve the DBH extraction accuracy of mobile laser scanning point cloud data and reduce the influence of poorly aligned point clouds on DBH fitting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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7. Assessing the Performance of Handheld Laser Scanning for Individual Tree Mapping in an Urban Area.
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Yang, Jinming, Yuan, Wenwen, Lu, Huicui, Liu, Yuehan, Wang, Yongkang, Sun, Letong, Li, Shimei, and Li, Haifang
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AIRBORNE lasers ,FOREST biodiversity ,URBAN trees ,ECOSYSTEM services ,STANDARD deviations ,FOREST density ,URBAN ecology ,LASERS - Abstract
Precise individual tree or sample-based inventories derived from 3D point cloud data of mobile laser scanning can improve our comprehensive understanding of the structure, function, resilience, biodiversity, and ecosystem services of urban forests. This study assessed the performance of a handheld laser scanning system (HLS) for the extraction of tree position, diameter at breast height (DBH), and tree height (H) in an urban area. A total of 2083 trees of 13 species from 34 plots were analyzed. The results showed that the registration of tree positions using ground control points (GCPs) demonstrated high accuracy, with errors consistently below 0.4 m, except for a few instances. The extraction accuracy of DBH for all trees and individual species remained consistently high, with a total root mean square error (RMSE) of 2.06 cm (6.89%) and a bias of 0.62 cm (2.07%). Notably, broad-leaved trees outperformed coniferous trees, with RMSE and bias values of 1.86 cm (6%) and 0.76 cm (2.46%), respectively, compared to 2.54 cm (9.46%) and 0.23 cm (0.84%), respectively. The accuracy of H extraction varied significantly among different species, with R
2 values ranging from 0.65 to 0.92. Generally, both DBH and H were underestimated compared to ground measurements. Linear mixed-effects models (LMEs) were applied to evaluate factors affecting the performance of HLS with the plot as a random factor. LME analysis revealed that plant type and terrain significantly influenced the accuracy of DBH and H derived from HLS data, while other fixed factors such as plot area, tree density, and trajectory length showed no significance. With a large sample size, we concluded that the HLS demonstrated sufficient accuracy in extracting individual tree parameters in urban forests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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8. A Rapid Segmentation Method of Highway Surface Point Cloud Data Based on a Supervoxel and Improved Region Growing Algorithm.
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Zhao, Wenshuo, Ning, Yipeng, Jia, Xiang, Chai, Dashuai, Su, Fei, and Wang, Shengli
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POINT cloud ,PAVEMENTS ,INFORMATION superhighway ,DATA structures ,SELECTION (Plant breeding) ,CLOUD storage - Abstract
Mobile laser scanning (MLS) systems have become an important technology for collecting and measuring road information for highway maintenance and reconstruction services. However, the efficient and accurate extraction of unstructured road surfaces from MLS point cloud data collected on highways is challenging. Specifically, the complex and unstructured characteristics of road surveying point cloud data lead to traditional 3D point cloud segmentation. When traditional 3D point cloud algorithms extract unstructured road surfaces, over-segmentation and under-segmentation often occur, which affects efficiency and accuracy. To solve these problems, this study introduces an enhanced road extraction method that integrates supervoxel and trajectory information into a traditional region growing algorithm. The method involves two main steps: first, a supervoxel data structure is applied to reconstruct the original MLS point cloud data, which diminishes the calculation time of the point cloud feature vector and accelerates the merging speed of a similar region; second, the trajectory information of the vehicle is used to optimize the seed selection strategy of the regio growing algorithm, which improves the accuracy of road surface extraction. Finally, two typical highway section tests (flat road and slope road) were conducted to validate the positioning performance of the proposed algorithm in an MLS point cloud. The results show that, compared with three kinds of traditional road surface segmentation algorithms, our method achieves an average extraction recall and precision of 99.1% and 96.0%, and by calculating the recall and precision, an F1 score of 97.5% can be obtained to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, for both datasets. Additionally, our method exhibits an average road surface extraction time that is 45.0%, 50.3%, and 55.8% faster than those of the other three automated segmentation algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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9. How biomass and other tree architectural characteristics relate to the structural complexity of a beech-pine forest
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Seidel D and Böttger FA
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LiDAR ,3D Forest Model ,Mobile Laser Scanning ,Pine-beech Forest ,Mixed Forest ,Structural Complexity ,Forestry ,SD1-669.5 - Abstract
The provision of ecosystem functions and services in forests is closely linked to the presence of complex structures. One such service is the ability to store carbon. It has recently become possible to quantify both structural complexity and biomass of forests (as proxy of carbon storage) using light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The objective of this study was to analyze how the community-level complexity of a forest stand relates to structural characteristics, and biomass in particular, of the trees comprising the stand. To do so, we virtually assembled 30 forests (3D models), all representing different versions of a beech-pine forest in Germany, based on real world 3D LiDAR scan data of all trees in the forest. At the individual tree level, various structural characteristics, including wood volume and biomass were derived using both voxel models and quantitative structure models (QSM). Basal area and biomass, as well as to a lower degree also the mean height of maximum crown projection area, significantly affected the structural complexity at stand level. Among the different forest models, the variation in complexity could best be described using a combination of basal area, mean height of the maximum crown projection area, and the coefficient of variation of total tree height. Biomass alone explained 54% of the variation in stand-level complexity, while the multivariate model based on measures addressing the amount and vertical distribution of plant material explained 86% of the variability in complexity. Using a laser-based and holistic approach of assessing the structural complexity, namely the box-dimension, allowed identifying key structural attributes that promote aboveground structural complexity of the forest studied here.
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- 2023
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10. Semantic segmentation of raw multispectral laser scanning data from urban environments with deep neural networks
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Mikael Reichler, Josef Taher, Petri Manninen, Harri Kaartinen, Juha Hyyppä, and Antero Kukko
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Multispectral point cloud ,Mobile laser scanning ,Semantic segmentation ,Deep learning ,Convolutional neural network ,Real-time ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 ,Surveying ,TA501-625 - Abstract
Real-time semantic segmentation of point clouds has increasing importance in applications related to 3D city modelling and mapping, automated inventory of forests, autonomous driving and mobile robotics. Current state-of-the-art point cloud semantic segmentation methods rely heavily on the availability of 3D laser scanning data. This is problematic in regards of low-latency, real-time applications that use data from high-precision mobile laser scanners, as those are typically 2D line scanning devices. In this study, we experiment with real-time semantic segmentation of high-density multispectral point clouds collected from 2D line scanners in urban environments using encoder - decoder convolutional neural network architectures. We introduce a rasterized multi-scan input format that can be constructed exclusively from the raw (non-georeferenced profiles) 2D laser scanner measurement stream without odometry information. In addition, we investigate the impact of multispectral data on the segmentation accuracy. The dataset used for training, validation and testing was collected with multispectral FGI AkhkaR4-DW backpack laser scanning system operating at the wavelengths of 905 nm and 1550 nm, and consists in total of 228 million points (39 583 scans). The data was divided into 13 classes that represent various targets in urban environments. The results show that the increased spatial context of the multi-scan format improves the segmentation performance on the single-wavelength lidar dataset from 45.4 mIoU (a single scan) to 62.1 mIoU (24 consecutive scans). In the multispectral point cloud experiments we achieved a 71 % and 28 % relative increase in the segmentation mIoU (43.5 mIoU) as compared to the purely single-wavelength reference experiments, in which we achieved 25.4 mIoU (905 nm) and 34.1 mIoU (1550 nm). Our findings show that it is possible to semantically segment 2D line scanner data with good results by combining consecutive scans without the need for odometry information. The results also serve as motivation for developing multispectral mobile laser scanning systems that can be used in challenging urban surveys.
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- 2024
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11. 3D Road Boundary Extraction Based on Machine Learning Strategy Using LiDAR and Image-Derived MMS Point Clouds.
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Suleymanoglu, Baris, Soycan, Metin, and Toth, Charles
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POINT cloud , *LEARNING strategies , *MACHINE learning , *LIDAR , *SPATIAL resolution , *DRIVERLESS cars , *AUTONOMOUS vehicles - Abstract
The precise extraction of road boundaries is an essential task to obtain road infrastructure data that can support various applications, such as maintenance, autonomous driving, vehicle navigation, and the generation of high-definition maps (HD map). Despite promising outcomes in prior studies, challenges persist in road extraction, particularly in discerning diverse road types. The proposed methodology integrates state-of-the-art techniques like DBSCAN and RANSAC, aiming to establish a universally applicable approach for diverse mobile mapping systems. This effort represents a pioneering step in extracting road information from image-based point cloud data. To assess the efficacy of the proposed method, we conducted experiments using a large-scale dataset acquired by two mobile mapping systems on the Yıldız Technical University campus; one system was configured as a mobile LiDAR system (MLS), while the other was equipped with cameras to operate as a photogrammetry-based mobile mapping system (MMS). Using manually measured reference road boundary data, we evaluated the completeness, correctness, and quality parameters of the road extraction performance of our proposed method based on two datasets. The completeness rates were 93.2% and 84.5%, while the correctness rates were 98.6% and 93.6%, respectively. The overall quality of the road curb extraction was 93.9% and 84.5% for the two datasets. Our proposed algorithm is capable of accurately extracting straight or curved road boundaries and curbs from complex point cloud data that includes vehicles, pedestrians, and other obstacles in urban environment. Furthermore, our experiments demonstrate that the algorithm can be applied to point cloud data acquired from different systems, such as MLS and MMS, with varying spatial resolutions and accuracy levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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12. Rapid Geometric Evaluation of Transportation Infrastructure Based on a Proposed Low-Cost Portable Mobile Laser Scanning System.
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Wang, Haochen and Feng, Dongming
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SCANNING systems , *INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) , *LASERS , *DIGITAL maps , *POINT cloud - Abstract
Efficient geometric evaluation of roads and tunnels is crucial to traffic management, especially in post-disaster situations. This paper reports on a study of the geometric feature detection method based on multi-sensor mobile laser scanning (MLS) system data. A portable, low-cost system that can be mounted on vehicles and utilizes integrated laser scanning devices was developed. Coordinate systems and timestamps from numerous devices were merged to create 3D point clouds of objects being measured. Feature points reflecting the geometric information of measuring objects were retrieved based on changes in the point cloud's shape, which contributed to measuring the road width, vertical clearance, and tunnel cross section. Self-developed software was used to conduct the measuring procedure, and a real-time online visualized platform was designed to reconstruct 3D models of the measured objects, forming a 3D digital map carrying the obtained geometric information. Finally, a case study was carried out. The measurement results of several representative nodes are discussed here, verifying the robustness of the proposed system. In addition, the main sources of interference are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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13. Internal Tree Trunk Decay Detection Using Close-Range Remote Sensing Data and the PointNet Deep Learning Method.
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Hrdina, Marek and Surový, Peter
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TREE trunks , *REMOTE sensing , *MACHINE learning , *DEEP learning , *DECIDUOUS plants , *CITY dwellers - Abstract
The health and stability of trees are essential information for the safety of people and property in urban greenery, parks or along roads. The stability of the trees is linked to root stability but essentially also to trunk decay. Currently used internal tree stem decay assessment methods, such as tomography and penetrometry, are reliable but usually time-consuming and unsuitable for large-scale surveys. Therefore, a new method based on close-range remotely sensed data, specifically close-range photogrammetry and iPhone LiDAR, was tested to detect decayed standing tree trunks automatically. The proposed study used the PointNet deep learning algorithm for 3D data classification. It was verified in three different datasets consisting of pure coniferous trees, pure deciduous trees, and mixed data to eliminate the influence of the detectable symptoms for each group and species itself. The mean achieved validation accuracies of the models were 65.5% for Coniferous trees, 58.4% for Deciduous trees and 57.7% for Mixed data classification. The accuracies indicate promising data, which can be either used by practitioners for preliminary surveys or for other researchers to acquire more input data and create more robust classification models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. METHODOLOGY OF SPATIAL DATA ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-DEFINITION MAP FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - CASE STUDY FROM WROCŁAW, POLAND.
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SIEJEK, Martyna, KASZA, Damian, and WAJS, Jaroslaw
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AUTONOMOUS vehicles ,DATA acquisition systems ,GEODESY ,TRAFFIC lanes ,ELECTRONIC data processing - Abstract
Autonomous drive systems are a dynamically developed sector of the automotive industry. The key problem in such technological solutions is to provide a reliable navigation system, which is typically based on high-definition (HD) maps supporting the identification of the position of a maneuvering vehicle. HD maps should include possibly up-to-date and detailed information on traffic lanes and on the traffic rules and regulations on such lanes. An effective development of an HD map should be based on the geodetic measurement methods, which ensure efficient and accurate acquisition of spatial data. This article presents the results of an experiment consisting in the manipulation of data obtained with the use of the mobile laser scanning method and further in employing this data in the development of an HD map in an open-source environment. The applied measurement technology and the processing method allowed data of high resolution (frequently above 1000 points per m2) and of high accuracy (3D accuracy down to less than 5 cm). The obtained data were processed in the Vector Map Builder environment (which is accessible from the level of an internet browser) and the final product - HD map was created in the Lanelet2 open-source environment. The above-described experiments allowed two main conclusions. Most importantly, they demonstrate the importance of planning and performing in-field mobile laser scanning measurements. They also point to the important role of the human analyst who needs to manually vectorize the key elements of road infrastructure and to define traffic rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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15. Drive-by infrastructure monitoring: a workflow for rigorous deformation analysis of mobile laser scanning data.
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Kalenjuk, Slaven and Lienhart, Werner
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INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) ,RAILROAD cars ,POINT cloud ,WORKFLOW ,LASERS - Abstract
This paper presents a practical and efficient workflow for deformation monitoring of transport infrastructure. We propose using commercially available mobile laser scanning (MLS) systems to scan civil infrastructure while driving by in a car or rail vehicle. Our processing pipeline corrects for MLS-specific systematic deviations and models deformations from point clouds of two epochs. Following the concept of rigorous deformation analysis, we statistically test the deformations for significance. The required point cloud uncertainty may be obtained in two ways. First option is empirically by multiple passes and, secondly, by prediction with a learned stochastic model. We apply the method to three retaining structures and evaluate results based on ground truth geodetic surveys. The deviations did not exceed 10 mm, even for complex object surfaces or when traveling at 80 km/h. We demonstrate that the method is capable of revealing displacements in the centimeter range without relying on any installations on the structure. The approach shows great potential as a novel, efficient tool for detecting and quantifying defective structures in a road and railway network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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16. Tree Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) Estimation Using an iPad Pro LiDAR Scanner: A Case Study in Boreal Forests, Ontario, Canada.
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Guenther, Matthew, Heenkenda, Muditha K., Morris, Dave, and Leblon, Brigitte
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TAIGAS ,LIDAR ,FOREST surveys ,SCANNING systems ,OPTICAL scanners ,FOREST density ,BIOMASS estimation - Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine whether the iPad Pro 12th generation LiDAR sensor is useful to measure tree diameter at breast height (DBH) in natural boreal forests. This is a follow-up to a previous study that was conducted in a research forest and identified the optimal method for (DBH) estimation as a circular scanning and fitting ellipses to 4 cm stem cross-sections at breast height. The iPad Pro LiDAR scanner was used to acquire point clouds for 15 sites representing a range of natural boreal forest conditions in Ontario, Canada, and estimate DBH. The secondary objective was to determine if tested stand (species composition, age, density, understory) or tree (species, DBH) factors affected the accuracy of estimated DBH. Overall, estimated DBH values were within 1 cm of actual DBH values for 78 of 133 measured trees (59%). An RMSE of 1.5 cm (8.6%) was achieved. Stand age had a large effect (>0.15) on the accuracy of estimated DBH values, while density, understory, and DBH had moderate effects (0.05–0.14). No trend was identified between accuracy and stand age. Accuracy improved as understory density decreased and as tree DBH increased. Inertial measurement unit (IMU) and positional accuracy errors with the iPad Pro scanner limit the feasibility of using this device for forest inventories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. Comparing positioning accuracy of mobile laser scanning systems under a forest canopy
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Jesse Muhojoki, Teemu Hakala, Antero Kukko, Harri Kaartinen, and Juha Hyyppä
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Forest positioning ,Tree map ,Mobile laser scanning ,Airborne laser scanning ,Point cloud processing ,Physical geography ,GB3-5030 ,Science - Abstract
In this paper, we compare the positioning accuracy of commercial, mobile laser scanning systems operating under a forest canopy. The accuracy was evaluated on a 800-m-long positioning track, using tree locations from both a traditional field reference, collected with total station, and a high-density airborne laser scanning (ALS) system as a reference. Tree locations were used since mobile lasers are studied for automation of field reference for forest inventory and location of individual trees with high accuracy is required. We also developed a novel method for evaluating the ground level around the trees, as it not only affects the z-coordinate, but the horizontal position as well if the tree is tilted.In addition to the accuracy that could only be evaluated for systems equipped with a GNSS receiver, we evaluate the consistency of laser scanning systems by registering the tree locations extracted from the mobile systems to both the field reference and ALS. We demonstrated that the high-density ALS has similar accuracy (RMSE of approximately 6 cm) and precision as the total station field reference, while being much faster to collect. Furthermore, the completeness of the high-density ALS was over 80 %, which is more than enough to register the other methods to it in a robust manner, providing a global position for laser scanners without an inherit way of georeferencing themselves, such as a GNSS receiver.The positioning of all the mobile systems were based on the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm integrated with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and they showed a similar precision; planar positioning error of less than 15 cm and vertical error of 10–30 cm. However, the accuracy of the only commercial system in this test whose positioning methods included a GNSS receiver, was order of several meters, indicating a demand for better methods for GNSS-based global positioning inside a dense forest canopy.
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- 2024
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18. Advancing Geotechnical Analysis with Octree-based Processing: Voxel-Level Integration of Mobile Laser Scanning Data, Geological Models, and Microseismic Data
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Fahle, Lukas, Petruska, Andrew J., Walton, Gabriel, Brune, Jurgen F., and Holley, Elizabeth A.
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- 2024
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19. Deformation Analysis of a Roadway Tunnel in Soft Swelling Rock Mass Based on 3D Mobile Laser Scanning
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Pu, Jiangyong, Yu, Qinglei, Zhao, Yong, Li, Zefei, Cao, Yongsheng, Le, Zhihua, Yang, Zhengming, and Li, Xu
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- 2024
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20. Data frame aware optimized Octomap-based dynamic object detection and removal in Mobile Laser Scanning data
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Zhenyu Liu, Peter van Oosterom, Jesús Balado, Arjen Swart, and Bart Beers
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Mobile Laser Scanning ,LiDAR Data ,Point Cloud ,Octomap ,Dynamic Object Detection ,Dynamic Object Removal ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,TA1-2040 - Abstract
The Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) data inevitably includes dynamic objects because there are always other vehicles (e.g., other cars, motorbikes, bikes, etc.) moving in the area near the MLS data collection vehicle on the road. These dynamic objects need to be removed in advance for many point cloud applications. This paper designs an efficient and memory-friendly data frame aware optimized Octomap-based dynamic object detection and removal method for MLS data. Firstly, the input MLS data is split into multiple data frames based on the timestamp. Each data frame is inserted into a separate Octomap with part of its neighbouring data frames. A statistics-based method is applied to each data frame to find the passable voxel cell space (free space) in Octomap and all points in the free space are extracted as free points. Second, the region of interest (ROI) related to the dynamic object is delineated to retain free points related to dynamic objects. Then the free-point rate and the multi-return rate are calculated to further remove noise and vegetation points from free points. Finally, the fixed radius search is used to extract dynamic objects from the filtered free points. The proposed method is tested in four case sites in Delft, the Netherlands. Results show that 84.98% of dynamic objects are detected and extracted correctly. The proposed method is 18.27% more efficient on average than the original Octomap method, can be further accelerated by parallel computing, and only needs 39.40% of the maximum memory consumption.
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- 2023
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21. Optimizing Mobile Laser Scanning Accuracy for Urban Applications: A Comparison by Strategy of Different Measured Ground Points
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Lukáš Běloch and Karel Pavelka
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mobile mapping system ,mobile laser scanning ,point cloud ,Riegl VMX-2HA ,Technology ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,TA1-2040 ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 ,Physics ,QC1-999 ,Chemistry ,QD1-999 - Abstract
Mobile mapping systems are part of modern data collection in geodesy. It is one of many surveying methods where field collection is performed in a short time. Among their advantages are cost savings and better visualisation than classic surveying methods. This article is focused on accuracy determinations in urban built-up areas of mobile laser scanning using the Riegl VMX-2HA system. These areas, where there is a combination of dense housing and trees, are an integral part of cities. Their diversity and complexity make surveying by other surveying methods time-consuming and complicated. In particular, the GNSS RTK method encounters problematic locations where sky obscuration by surrounding elements reduces measurement accuracy. Data collection was performed on a test base in the city of Pilsen, Czech Republic. The base includes 27 control points and more than 100 checkpoints. Two sets of coordinates were created for the points; the first set is calculated using tied net adjustment and the second one is determined by RTK GNSS measurements. Point cloud calculations were processed in RiPROCESS software from Riegl, using different configurations and qualities of the control points. Each point cloud was analysed including the determination of point cloud deviations. This article is also dedicated to the identification of problematic spots, where measurement can be degraded. The results presented in this paper show the influence of the quality and different spacing of the control points on the point cloud, its accuracy compared to the precise points, and the global and local deformation of the point cloud. This work can be used as a basis for replacing classical surveying methods with a more efficient mobile laser scanning method.
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- 2024
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22. Assessing the Performance of Handheld Laser Scanning for Individual Tree Mapping in an Urban Area
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Jinming Yang, Wenwen Yuan, Huicui Lu, Yuehan Liu, Yongkang Wang, Letong Sun, Shimei Li, and Haifang Li
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LiDAR ,mobile laser scanning ,personal laser scanning ,forest inventory ,point cloud ,Plant ecology ,QK900-989 - Abstract
Precise individual tree or sample-based inventories derived from 3D point cloud data of mobile laser scanning can improve our comprehensive understanding of the structure, function, resilience, biodiversity, and ecosystem services of urban forests. This study assessed the performance of a handheld laser scanning system (HLS) for the extraction of tree position, diameter at breast height (DBH), and tree height (H) in an urban area. A total of 2083 trees of 13 species from 34 plots were analyzed. The results showed that the registration of tree positions using ground control points (GCPs) demonstrated high accuracy, with errors consistently below 0.4 m, except for a few instances. The extraction accuracy of DBH for all trees and individual species remained consistently high, with a total root mean square error (RMSE) of 2.06 cm (6.89%) and a bias of 0.62 cm (2.07%). Notably, broad-leaved trees outperformed coniferous trees, with RMSE and bias values of 1.86 cm (6%) and 0.76 cm (2.46%), respectively, compared to 2.54 cm (9.46%) and 0.23 cm (0.84%), respectively. The accuracy of H extraction varied significantly among different species, with R2 values ranging from 0.65 to 0.92. Generally, both DBH and H were underestimated compared to ground measurements. Linear mixed-effects models (LMEs) were applied to evaluate factors affecting the performance of HLS with the plot as a random factor. LME analysis revealed that plant type and terrain significantly influenced the accuracy of DBH and H derived from HLS data, while other fixed factors such as plot area, tree density, and trajectory length showed no significance. With a large sample size, we concluded that the HLS demonstrated sufficient accuracy in extracting individual tree parameters in urban forests.
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23. Tree Diameter at Breast Height Extraction Based on Mobile Laser Scanning Point Cloud
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Yuhao Sheng, Qingzhan Zhao, Xuewen Wang, Yihao Liu, and Xiaojun Yin
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mobile laser scanning ,diameter at breast height ,point cloud intensity ,least squares ,circle fitting ,Plant ecology ,QK900-989 - Abstract
The traditional measurement method (e.g., field survey) of tree diameter circumference often has high labor costs and is time-consuming. Mobile laser scanning (MLS) is a powerful tool for measuring forest diameter at breast height (DBH). However, the accuracy of point cloud registration seriously affects the results of DBH measurements. To address this issue, this paper proposes a new method for extracting tree DBH parameters; it achieves the purpose of efficient and accurate extraction of tree DBH by point cloud filtering, single-tree instance segmentation, and least squares circle fitting. Firstly, the point cloud data of the plantation forest samples were obtained by a self-constructed unmanned vehicle-mounted mobile laser scanning system, and the ground point cloud was removed using cloth simulation filtering (CSF). Secondly, fast Euclidean clustering (FEC) was employed to segment the single-tree instances, and the point cloud slices at breast height were extracted based on the point sets of single-tree instances, which were then fitted in two dimensions using the horizontally projected point cloud slices. Finally, a circle fitting algorithm based on intensity weighted least squares (IWLS) was proposed to solve the optimal circle model based on 2D point cloud slices, to minimize the impact of misaligned point clouds on DBH measures. The results showed that the mean absolute error (MAE) of the IWLS method was 2.41 cm, the root mean square error (RMSE) was 2.81 cm, and the relative accuracy was 89.77%. Compared with the random sample consensus (RANSAC) algorithm and ordinary least squares (OLS), the MAE was reduced by 36.45% and 9.14%, the RMSE was reduced by 40.90% and 12.26%, and the relative accuracy was improved by 8.99% and 1.63%, respectively. The R2 value of the fitted curve of the IWLS method was the closest to 1, with the highest goodness of fit and a significant linear correlation with the true value. The proposed intensity weighted least squares circle-fitting DBH extraction method can effectively improve the DBH extraction accuracy of mobile laser scanning point cloud data and reduce the influence of poorly aligned point clouds on DBH fitting.
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24. A Rapid Segmentation Method of Highway Surface Point Cloud Data Based on a Supervoxel and Improved Region Growing Algorithm
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Wenshuo Zhao, Yipeng Ning, Xiang Jia, Dashuai Chai, Fei Su, and Shengli Wang
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mobile laser scanning ,point cloud ,supervoxel ,region growing ,road surface ,Technology ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,TA1-2040 ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 ,Physics ,QC1-999 ,Chemistry ,QD1-999 - Abstract
Mobile laser scanning (MLS) systems have become an important technology for collecting and measuring road information for highway maintenance and reconstruction services. However, the efficient and accurate extraction of unstructured road surfaces from MLS point cloud data collected on highways is challenging. Specifically, the complex and unstructured characteristics of road surveying point cloud data lead to traditional 3D point cloud segmentation. When traditional 3D point cloud algorithms extract unstructured road surfaces, over-segmentation and under-segmentation often occur, which affects efficiency and accuracy. To solve these problems, this study introduces an enhanced road extraction method that integrates supervoxel and trajectory information into a traditional region growing algorithm. The method involves two main steps: first, a supervoxel data structure is applied to reconstruct the original MLS point cloud data, which diminishes the calculation time of the point cloud feature vector and accelerates the merging speed of a similar region; second, the trajectory information of the vehicle is used to optimize the seed selection strategy of the regio growing algorithm, which improves the accuracy of road surface extraction. Finally, two typical highway section tests (flat road and slope road) were conducted to validate the positioning performance of the proposed algorithm in an MLS point cloud. The results show that, compared with three kinds of traditional road surface segmentation algorithms, our method achieves an average extraction recall and precision of 99.1% and 96.0%, and by calculating the recall and precision, an F1 score of 97.5% can be obtained to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, for both datasets. Additionally, our method exhibits an average road surface extraction time that is 45.0%, 50.3%, and 55.8% faster than those of the other three automated segmentation algorithms.
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25. Remarks on Geomatics Measurement Methods Focused on Forestry Inventory.
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Pavelka, Karel, Matoušková, Eva, and Pavelka Jr., Karel
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FOREST management , *FORESTS & forestry , *OPTICAL scanners , *GEOMATICS , *AERIAL photogrammetry , *DRONE aircraft , *SECURE Sockets Layer (Computer network protocol) , *EMISSION inventories , *LOGGING - Abstract
This contribution focuses on a comparison of modern geomatics technologies for the derivation of growth parameters in forest management. The present text summarizes the results of our measurements over the last five years. As a case project, a mountain spruce forest with planned forest logging was selected. In this locality, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and terrestrial and drone close-range photogrammetry were experimentally used, as was the use of PLS mobile technology (personal laser scanning) and ALS (aerial laser scanning). Results from the data joining, usability, and economics of all technologies for forest management and ecology were discussed. ALS is expensive for small areas and the results were not suitable for a detailed parameter derivation. The RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft systems, known as "drones") method of data acquisition combines the benefits of close-range and aerial photogrammetry. If the approximate height and number of the trees are known, one can approximately calculate the extracted cubage of wood mass before forest logging. The use of conventional terrestrial close-range photogrammetry and TLS proved to be inappropriate and practically unusable in our case, and also in standard forestry practice after consultation with forestry workers. On the other hand, the use of PLS is very simple and allows you to quickly define ordered parameters and further calculate, for example, the cubic volume of wood stockpiles. The results from our research into forestry show that drones can be used to estimate quantities (wood cubature) and inspect the health status of spruce forests, However, PLS seems, nowadays, to be the best solution in forest management for deriving forest parameters. Our results are mainly oriented to practice and in no way diminish the general research in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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26. Estimating Mediterranean stand fuel characteristics using handheld mobile laser scanning technology.
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Coskuner, Kadir Alperen, Vatandaslar, Can, Ozturk, Murat, Harman, Ismet, Bilgili, Ertugrul, Karahalil, Uzay, Berber, Tolga, and Tunc Gormus, Esra
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TREE height ,OPTICAL radar ,LIDAR ,LASERS - Abstract
Background: Accurate, timely and easily obtainable information on stand fuel is of great importance in the prediction of fire behaviour. Aims: The objective of this study is to measure several stand fuel characteristics with handheld mobile laser scanning (HMLS) in six fuel types for Mediterranean region, and compare the results with traditional field fuel measurements (FFM) in 35 different sampling plots. Methods: The measurements involved overstorey (the number of trees, diameter at breast height, crown base height, tree height, maximum tree height, stand crown closure) and understorey (understorey closure, understorey height) fuel characteristics, and ground slope. Correlation analysis and t -test were performed to examine the relationship between FFM and HMLS datasets. In addition, cross-validation statistics (RMSE, r RMSE and R
2 ) were employed to evaluate the accuracy of the HMLS method. Key results: The results indicated strong correlations among all fuel characteristics. However, overstorey fuel characteristics were more favourable (r -values between 0.804 and 0.996, P < 0.01) than understorey (r -values between 0.483 and 0.612, P < 0.01). There was no significant difference between FFM and HMLS datasets in all fuel characteristics (P > 0.05). Conclusions: The results indicated that the HMLS was practical, cost-effective, time-efficient and required less labour as compared to traditional FFM in plot-level (i.e. 0.1 ha) inventories. Accurate, timely and easily obtainable information on stand fuel characteristics plays an important role in fire behaviour prediction. In this study, stand fuel characteristics were measured using handheld mobile laser scanning in six fuel types. The results were compared to those obtained through field fuel measurements from the same plots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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27. Semantic Point Cloud Segmentation Based on Hexagonal Klemperer Rosette and Machine Learning
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Balado, Jesús, Fernández, Antonio, González, Elena, Díaz-Vilariño, Lucía, Chaari, Fakher, Series Editor, Gherardini, Francesco, Series Editor, Ivanov, Vitalii, Series Editor, Cavas-Martínez, Francisco, Editorial Board Member, di Mare, Francesca, Editorial Board Member, Haddar, Mohamed, Editorial Board Member, Kwon, Young W., Editorial Board Member, Trojanowska, Justyna, Editorial Board Member, Marín Granados, Manuel D., editor, Mirálbes Buil, Ramón, editor, and de-Cózar-Macías, Oscar D., editor
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28. Tree Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) Estimation Using an iPad Pro LiDAR Scanner: A Case Study in Boreal Forests, Ontario, Canada
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Matthew Guenther, Muditha K. Heenkenda, Dave Morris, and Brigitte Leblon
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iPad Pro LiDAR ,DBH ,boreal forest ,forest inventory ,mobile laser scanning ,Plant ecology ,QK900-989 - Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine whether the iPad Pro 12th generation LiDAR sensor is useful to measure tree diameter at breast height (DBH) in natural boreal forests. This is a follow-up to a previous study that was conducted in a research forest and identified the optimal method for (DBH) estimation as a circular scanning and fitting ellipses to 4 cm stem cross-sections at breast height. The iPad Pro LiDAR scanner was used to acquire point clouds for 15 sites representing a range of natural boreal forest conditions in Ontario, Canada, and estimate DBH. The secondary objective was to determine if tested stand (species composition, age, density, understory) or tree (species, DBH) factors affected the accuracy of estimated DBH. Overall, estimated DBH values were within 1 cm of actual DBH values for 78 of 133 measured trees (59%). An RMSE of 1.5 cm (8.6%) was achieved. Stand age had a large effect (>0.15) on the accuracy of estimated DBH values, while density, understory, and DBH had moderate effects (0.05–0.14). No trend was identified between accuracy and stand age. Accuracy improved as understory density decreased and as tree DBH increased. Inertial measurement unit (IMU) and positional accuracy errors with the iPad Pro scanner limit the feasibility of using this device for forest inventories.
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29. Rapid Geometric Evaluation of Transportation Infrastructure Based on a Proposed Low-Cost Portable Mobile Laser Scanning System
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Haochen Wang and Dongming Feng
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transportation infrastructure ,geometric measurement ,mobile laser scanning ,low-cost ,3D reconstruction ,data fusion ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
Efficient geometric evaluation of roads and tunnels is crucial to traffic management, especially in post-disaster situations. This paper reports on a study of the geometric feature detection method based on multi-sensor mobile laser scanning (MLS) system data. A portable, low-cost system that can be mounted on vehicles and utilizes integrated laser scanning devices was developed. Coordinate systems and timestamps from numerous devices were merged to create 3D point clouds of objects being measured. Feature points reflecting the geometric information of measuring objects were retrieved based on changes in the point cloud’s shape, which contributed to measuring the road width, vertical clearance, and tunnel cross section. Self-developed software was used to conduct the measuring procedure, and a real-time online visualized platform was designed to reconstruct 3D models of the measured objects, forming a 3D digital map carrying the obtained geometric information. Finally, a case study was carried out. The measurement results of several representative nodes are discussed here, verifying the robustness of the proposed system. In addition, the main sources of interference are also discussed.
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30. 3D Road Boundary Extraction Based on Machine Learning Strategy Using LiDAR and Image-Derived MMS Point Clouds
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Baris Suleymanoglu, Metin Soycan, and Charles Toth
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mobile mapping systems ,mobile laser scanning ,curb detection ,3D road extraction ,machine learning ,Chemical technology ,TP1-1185 - Abstract
The precise extraction of road boundaries is an essential task to obtain road infrastructure data that can support various applications, such as maintenance, autonomous driving, vehicle navigation, and the generation of high-definition maps (HD map). Despite promising outcomes in prior studies, challenges persist in road extraction, particularly in discerning diverse road types. The proposed methodology integrates state-of-the-art techniques like DBSCAN and RANSAC, aiming to establish a universally applicable approach for diverse mobile mapping systems. This effort represents a pioneering step in extracting road information from image-based point cloud data. To assess the efficacy of the proposed method, we conducted experiments using a large-scale dataset acquired by two mobile mapping systems on the Yıldız Technical University campus; one system was configured as a mobile LiDAR system (MLS), while the other was equipped with cameras to operate as a photogrammetry-based mobile mapping system (MMS). Using manually measured reference road boundary data, we evaluated the completeness, correctness, and quality parameters of the road extraction performance of our proposed method based on two datasets. The completeness rates were 93.2% and 84.5%, while the correctness rates were 98.6% and 93.6%, respectively. The overall quality of the road curb extraction was 93.9% and 84.5% for the two datasets. Our proposed algorithm is capable of accurately extracting straight or curved road boundaries and curbs from complex point cloud data that includes vehicles, pedestrians, and other obstacles in urban environment. Furthermore, our experiments demonstrate that the algorithm can be applied to point cloud data acquired from different systems, such as MLS and MMS, with varying spatial resolutions and accuracy levels.
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31. Gamification for road asset inspection from Mobile Mapping System data.
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Barros-Sobrín, Álvaro, Balado, Jesús, Soilán, Mario, and Mingueza-Bauzá, Enrique
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Gamification techniques have been proven effective in various fields such as education and industry. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that applies gamification techniques to the identification of road assets in Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) data. Our method utilises three gamification techniques: avatar (vehicle), point cloud segmentation into levels, and scoring. We implemented these techniques in Unreal Engine and evaluated their performance using three real-world case studies. We also compared two ways of point cloud visualisation: mesh-based and point-based. Our results demonstrate that our gamification approach improves the handling and visualisation of point clouds when compared to other free software such as Cloud Compare. Specifically, the point-based visualisation method provides a more accurate representation of the road environment and the input point cloud and is easier to import into Unreal Engine. However, this method requires more computational resources for visualisation. On the other hand, level segmentation ensures a constant frame rate of 60 frames per second. Furthermore, our gamification approach enhances the experience of road asset identification, making it more enjoyable for the user. However, we acknowledge that the quality of the point cloud remains the primary factor affecting the accuracy of asset identification, regardless of the software used. Overall, our proposed gamification approach offers a promising solution for improving the identification of road assets in MLS data and has the potential to be applied to other fields beyond road asset identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Saint Petersburg 3D: Creating a Large-Scale Hybrid Mobile LiDAR Point Cloud Dataset for Geospatial Applications.
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Lytkin, Sergey, Badenko, Vladimir, Fedotov, Alexander, Vinogradov, Konstantin, Chervak, Anton, Milanov, Yevgeny, and Zotov, Dmitry
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DEEP learning , *POINT cloud , *CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks , *LIDAR , *CLOUD computing - Abstract
At the present time, many publicly available point cloud datasets exist, which are mainly focused on autonomous driving. The objective of this study is to develop a new large-scale mobile 3D LiDAR point cloud dataset for outdoor scene semantic segmentation tasks, which has a classification scheme suitable for geospatial applications. Our dataset (Saint Petersburg 3D) contains both real-world (34 million points) and synthetic (34 million points) subsets that were acquired using real and virtual sensors with the same characteristics. An original classification scheme is proposed that contains a set of 10 universal object categories into which any scene represented by dense outdoor mobile LiDAR point clouds can be divided. The evaluation procedure for semantic segmentation of point clouds for geospatial applications is described. An experiment with the Kernel Point Fully Convolution Neural Network model trained on the proposed dataset was carried out. We obtained an overall 92.56% mIoU, which demonstrates the high efficiency of using deep learning models for point cloud semantic segmentation for geospatial applications in accordance with the proposed classification scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Data frame aware optimized Octomap-based dynamic object detection and removal in Mobile Laser Scanning data.
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Liu, Zhenyu, van Oosterom, Peter, Balado, Jesús, Swart, Arjen, and Beers, Bart
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OBJECT recognition (Computer vision) ,LASERS ,POINT cloud ,CLOUD computing ,PARALLEL programming - Abstract
The Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) data inevitably includes dynamic objects because there are always other vehicles (e.g., other cars, motorbikes, bikes, etc.) moving in the area near the MLS data collection vehicle on the road. These dynamic objects need to be removed in advance for many point cloud applications. This paper designs an efficient and memory-friendly data frame aware optimized Octomap-based dynamic object detection and removal method for MLS data. Firstly, the input MLS data is split into multiple data frames based on the timestamp. Each data frame is inserted into a separate Octomap with part of its neighbouring data frames. A statistics-based method is applied to each data frame to find the passable voxel cell space (free space) in Octomap and all points in the free space are extracted as free points. Second, the region of interest (ROI) related to the dynamic object is delineated to retain free points related to dynamic objects. Then the free-point rate and the multi-return rate are calculated to further remove noise and vegetation points from free points. Finally, the fixed radius search is used to extract dynamic objects from the filtered free points. The proposed method is tested in four case sites in Delft, the Netherlands. Results show that 84.98% of dynamic objects are detected and extracted correctly. The proposed method is 18.27% more efficient on average than the original Octomap method, can be further accelerated by parallel computing, and only needs 39.40% of the maximum memory consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. 基于移动激光扫描的盾构隧道参数化建模.
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何 江, 姚连璧, 丁孝兵, and 杨 坤
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35. Assessing the Quality of the Leica BLK2GO Mobile Laser Scanner versus the Focus 3D S120 Static Terrestrial Laser Scanner for a Preliminary Study of Garden Digital Surveying
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Graziella Del Duca and Carol Machado
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terrestrial laser scanning ,LiDAR ,mobile laser scanning ,SLAM ,accuracy assessment ,forest inventory ,Archaeology ,CC1-960 - Abstract
Gardens play a key role in the definition of the cultural landscape since they reflect the culture, identity, and history of a people. They also contribute to the ecological balance of the city. Despite the fact that gardens have an historic and social value, they are not protected as much as the rest of the existing heritage, such as architecture and archaeological sites. While methods of built-heritage mapping and monitoring are increasing and constantly improving to reduce built-heritage loss and the severe impact of natural disasters, the documentation and survey techniques for gardens are often antiquated. In addition, inventories are typically made by non-updated/updateable reports, and they are rarely in digital format or in 3D. This paper presents the results of a comprehensive study on the latest technology for laser scanning in gardens. We compared static terrestrial laser scanning and mobile laser scanning point clouds generated by the Focus 3D S120 and the Leica BLK2GO, respectively, to evaluate their quality for documentation, estimate tree attributes, and terrain morphology. The evaluation is based on visual observation, C2C comparisons, and terrain information extraction capabilities, i.e., M3C2 comparisons for topography, DTM generation, and contour lines. Both methods produced useful outcomes for the scope of the research within their limitations. Terrestrial laser scanning is still the method that offers accurate point clouds with a higher point density and less noise. However, the more recent mobile laser scanning is able to survey in less time, significantly reducing the costs for site activities, data post-production, and registration. Both methods have their own restrictions that are amplified by site features, mainly the lack of plans for the geometric alignment of scans and the simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) process. We offer a critical description of the issues related to the functionality of the two sensors, such as the operative range limit, light dependency, scanning time, point cloud completeness and size, and noise level.
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36. Individual tree segmentation and species classification using high-density close-range multispectral laser scanning data
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Aada Hakula, Lassi Ruoppa, Matti Lehtomäki, Xiaowei Yu, Antero Kukko, Harri Kaartinen, Josef Taher, Leena Matikainen, Eric Hyyppä, Ville Luoma, Markus Holopainen, Ville Kankare, and Juha Hyyppä
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Point cloud ,Intensity ,Reflectance ,Mobile laser scanning ,Lidar ,Airborne laser scanning ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 ,Surveying ,TA501-625 - Abstract
Tree species characterise biodiversity, health, economic potential, and resilience of an ecosystem, for example. Tree species classification based on remote sensing data, however, is known to be a challenging task. In this paper, we study for the first time the feasibility of tree species classification using high-density point clouds collected with an airborne close-range multispectral laser scanning system – a technique that has previously proved to be capable of providing stem curve and volume accurately and rapidly for standing trees. To this end, we carried out laser scanning measurements from a helicopter on 53 forest sample plots, each with a size of 32 m × 32 m. The plots covered approximately 5500 trees in total, including Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H.Karst.), and deciduous trees such as Downy birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) and Silverbirch (Betula pendula Roth). The multispectral laser scanning system consisted of integrated Riegl VUX-1HA, miniVUX-3UAV, and VQ-840-G scanners (Riegl GmbH, Austria) operating at wavelengths of 1550 nm, 905 nm, and 532 nm, respectively. A new approach, layer-by-layer segmentation, was developed for individual tree detection and segmentation from the dense point cloud data. After individual tree segmentation, 249 features were computed for tree species classification, which was tested with approximately 3000 trees. The features described the point cloud geometry as well as single-channel and multi-channel reflectance metrics. Both feature selection and the tree species classification were conducted using the random forest method. Using the layer-by-layer segmentation algorithm, trees in the dominant and co-dominant categories were found with detection rates of 89.5% and 77.9%, respectively, whereas suppressed trees were detected with a success rate of 15.2%–42.3%, clearly improving upon the standard watershed segmentation. The overall accuracy of the tree species classification was 73.1% when using geometric features from the 1550 nm scanner data and 86.6% when combining the geometric features with reflectance information of the 1550 nm data. The use of multispectral reflectance and geometric features improved the overall classification accuracy up to 90.8%. Classification accuracies were as high as 92.7% and 93.7% for dominant and co-dominant trees, respectively.
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37. Comparing tree structures derived among airborne, terrestrial and mobile LiDAR systems in urban parks
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Heejoon Choi and Youngkeun Song
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airborne laser scanning ,terrestrial laser scanning ,mobile laser scanning ,canopy structure ,slam ,Mathematical geography. Cartography ,GA1-1776 ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
Measuring tree structure using three-dimensional (3D) mapping tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing is needed to provide well-managed and designed green spaces. The metrics used to estimate tree structure could be different depending on which LiDAR systems are used. This may lead to confusion and reduce confidence when evaluating tree structures and their derived products, such as plant area index (PAI). Therefore, studies that can determine similarities among measurements derived from different LiDAR systems are needed. In this study, structural canopy metrics in airborne laser scanning (ALS), terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), and mobile laser scanning (MLS) were compared to seek consistencies among the three LiDAR systems. The specific objectives were to test whether the estimates made by the metrics differed depending on single or clustered trees and to test whether LiDAR-derived errors in the metrics are related to tree structures. Tree point clouds were manually classified into single and clustered trees. Heights-related metrics, Rumple Index, area, and PAI were calculated for comparison analysis. Root-mean-square error (RMSE), bias, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) were calculated to evaluate the consistencies in each metric among the LiDAR systems. The results showed that the maximum height of the point clouds (ZMAX) and max and mean heights derived from the canopy height models (minCHM and maxCHM) demonstrated good consistency (RMSE% < 10%, Bias% < 10%, and r > 0.900). Moreover, the biases from the ZMAX- and CHM-derived metrics comparisons among the LiDAR systems did not show strong linear relationships with the tree heights and canopy complexities (i.e. Pearson’s correlation coefficient r < |0.29|). On the contrary, the 95th percentile (Zq95) height and mean z height (ZMEAN) differed depending on the tree classes and showed significant linear relations with canopy heights and complexity. The configurations of LiDAR systems, such as point density and sensing locations, seem to affect the Zq95, ZMEAN metrics, and PAI. Our results suggest that assessing for consistencies among the different LiDAR systems is required before using multiple LiDAR systems interchangeably to estimate the structure of urban park areas.
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38. D-Net: A Density-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds Classification in Urban Areas.
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Zaboli, Mahdiye, Rastiveis, Heidar, Hosseiny, Benyamin, Shokri, Danesh, Sarasua, Wayne A., and Homayouni, Saeid
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The 3D semantic segmentation of a LiDAR point cloud is essential for various complex infrastructure analyses such as roadway monitoring, digital twin, or even smart city development. Different geometric and radiometric descriptors or diverse combinations of point descriptors can extract objects from LiDAR data through classification. However, the irregular structure of the point cloud is a typical descriptor learning problem—how to consider each point and its surroundings in an appropriate structure for descriptor extraction? In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have received much attention for automatic segmentation and classification. Previous studies demonstrated deep learning models' high potential and robust performance for classifying complicated point clouds and permutation invariance. Nevertheless, such algorithms still extract descriptors from independent points without investigating the deep descriptor relationship between the center point and its neighbors. This paper proposes a robust and efficient CNN-based framework named D-Net for automatically classifying a mobile laser scanning (MLS) point cloud in urban areas. Initially, the point cloud is converted into a regular voxelized structure during a preprocessing step. This helps to overcome the challenge of irregularity and inhomogeneity. A density value is assigned to each voxel that describes the point distribution within the voxel's location. Then, by training the designed CNN classifier, each point will receive the label of its corresponding voxel. The performance of the proposed D-Net method was tested using a point cloud dataset in an urban area. Our results demonstrated a relatively high level of performance with an overall accuracy (OA) of about 98% and precision, recall, and F1 scores of over 92%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. Can the Perception Data of Autonomous Vehicles Be Used to Replace Mobile Mapping Surveys?—A Case Study Surveying Roadside City Trees.
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Hyyppä, Eric, Manninen, Petri, Maanpää, Jyri, Taher, Josef, Litkey, Paula, Hyyti, Heikki, Kukko, Antero, Kaartinen, Harri, Ahokas, Eero, Yu, Xiaowei, Muhojoki, Jesse, Lehtomäki, Matti, Virtanen, Juho-Pekka, and Hyyppä, Juha
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URBAN trees , *SCANNING systems , *DRIVERLESS cars , *POINT cloud , *AUTONOMOUS vehicles , *TIMESTAMPS , *IN-vehicle computing , *OPTICAL scanners - Abstract
The continuous flow of autonomous vehicle-based data could revolutionize current map updating procedures and allow completely new types of mapping applications. Therefore, in this article, we demonstrate the feasibility of using perception data of autonomous vehicles to replace traditionally conducted mobile mapping surveys with a case study focusing on updating a register of roadside city trees. In our experiment, we drove along a 1.3-km-long road in Helsinki to collect laser scanner data using our autonomous car platform ARVO, which is based on a Ford Mondeo hybrid passenger vehicle equipped with a Velodyne VLS-128 Alpha Prime scanner and other high-grade sensors for autonomous perception. For comparison, laser scanner data from the same region were also collected with a specially-planned high-grade mobile mapping laser scanning system. Based on our results, the diameter at breast height, one of the key parameters of city tree registers, could be estimated with a lower root-mean-square error from the perception data of the autonomous car than from the specially-planned mobile laser scanning survey, provided that time-based filtering was included in the post-processing of the autonomous perception data to mitigate distortions in the obtained point cloud. Therefore, appropriately performed post-processing of the autonomous perception data can be regarded as a viable option for keeping maps updated in road environments. However, point cloud-processing algorithms may need to be adapted for the post-processing of autonomous perception data due to the differences in the sensors and their arrangements compared to designated mobile mapping systems. We also emphasize that time-based filtering may be required in the post-processing of autonomous perception data due to point cloud distortions around objects seen at multiple times. This highlights the importance of saving the time stamp for each data point in the autonomous perception data or saving the temporal order of the data points. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. Development and Testing of Octree-Based Intra-Voxel Statistical Inference to Enable Real-Time Geotechnical Monitoring of Large-Scale Underground Spaces with Mobile Laser Scanning Data.
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Fahle, Lukas, Petruska, Andrew J., Walton, Gabriel, Brune, Jurgen F., and Holley, Elizabeth A.
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UNDERGROUND areas , *TUNNELS , *LASERS , *SCANNING systems , *ROCKFALL , *IMAGE denoising , *OPTICAL scanners - Abstract
Convergence and rockmass failure are significant hazards to personnel and physical assets in underground tunnels, caverns, and mines. Mobile Laser Scanning Systems (MLS) can deliver large volumes of point cloud data at a high frequency and on a large scale. However, current change detection approaches do not deliver sufficient sensitivity and precision for real-time performance on large-scale datasets. We present a novel, octree-based computational framework for intra-voxel statistical inference change detection and deformation analysis. Our approach exploits high-density MLS data to test for statistical significance for appearing objects caused by rockfall and for low-magnitude deformations, such as convergence. In field tests, our method detects rock falls with side lengths as small as 0.03 m and convergence as low as 0.01 m, or 0.5% wall-to-wall strain. When compared against a state-of-the-art multi-scale model-to-model cloud comparison (M3C2)-based method, ours is less sensitive to noisy data and parameter selection while also requiring fewer parameters. Most notably, our method is the only one tested that can perform real-time change detection on large-scale datasets on a single processor thread. Our method achieves a computational improvement of 50 times over single-threaded M3C2 while maintaining a performance scalability that is four times greater with dataset size. Our framework shows significant potential to enable accurate real-time geotechnical monitoring of large-scale underground spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. Trunk-Constrained and Tree Structure Analysis Method for Individual Tree Extraction from Scanned Outdoor Scenes.
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Ning, Xiaojuan, Ma, Yishu, Hou, Yuanyuan, Lv, Zhiyong, Jin, Haiyan, Wang, Zengbo, and Wang, Yinghui
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CROWNS (Botany) , *TREE trunks , *TREE growth , *POINT cloud , *CITIES & towns , *URBAN trees - Abstract
The automatic extraction of individual tree from mobile laser scanning (MLS) scenes has important applications in tree growth monitoring, tree parameter calculation and tree modeling. However, trees often grow in rows and tree crowns overlap with varying shapes, and there is also incompleteness caused by occlusion, which makes individual tree extraction a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a trunk-constrained and tree structure analysis method to extract trees from scanned urban scenes. Firstly, multi-feature enhancement is performed via PointNet to segment the tree points from raw urban scene point clouds. Next, the candidate local tree trunk clusters are obtained by clustering based on the intercepted local tree trunk layer, and the real local tree trunk is obtained by removing noise data. Then, the trunk is located and extracted by combining circle fitting and region growing, so as to obtain the center of the tree crown. Further, the points near the tree's crown (core points) are segmented through distance difference, and the tree crown boundary (boundary points) is distinguished by analyzing the density and centroid deflection angle. Therefore, the core and boundary points are deleted to obtain the remaining points (intermediate points). Finally, the core, intermediate and boundary points, as well as the tree trunks, are combined to extract individual tree. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated on the Pairs-Lille-3D dataset, which is a benchmark for point cloud classification, and data were produced using a mobile laser system (MLS) applied to two different cities in France (Paris and Lille). Overall, the precision, recall, and F1-score of instance segmentation were 90.00%, 98.22%, and 99.08%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that our method can effectively extract trees with multiple rows of occlusion and improve the accuracy of tree extraction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. Assessing the Performance of a Handheld Laser Scanning System for Individual Tree Mapping—A Mixed Forests Showcase in Spain.
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Tupinambá-Simões, Frederico, Pascual, Adrián, Guerra-Hernández, Juan, Ordóñez, Cristóbal, de Conto, Tiago, and Bravo, Felipe
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AIRBORNE lasers , *MIXED forests , *SCANNING systems , *STANDARD deviations , *FOREST surveys , *FOREST monitoring - Abstract
The use of mobile laser scanning to survey forest ecosystems is a promising, scalable technology to describe the 3D structure of forests at a high resolution. We use a structurally complex, mixed-species Mediterranean forest to test the performance of a mobile Handheld Laser Scanning (HLS) system to estimate tree attributes within a forest patch in central Spain. We describe the different stages of the HLS approach: field position, ground data collection, scanning path design, point cloud processing, alignment between detected trees and measured reference trees, and finally, the assessment of main tree structural attributes diameter at breast height (DBH) and tree height considering species and tree size as control factors. We surveyed 418 reference trees to account for omission and commission error rates over a 1 ha plot divided into 16 sections and scanned using two different scanning paths. The HLS-based approach reached a high of 88 and 92% tree detection rate for the best combination of scanning path and point cloud processing modes for the HLS system. The root mean squared errors for DBH estimates varied between species: errors for Pinus pinaster were below 2 cm for Scan 02. Quercus pyrenaica, and Alnus glutinosa showed higher error rates. We observed good agreement between ALS and HLS estimates for tree height, highlighting differences to field measurements. Despite the complexity of the mixed forest area surveyed, our results show that HLS is highly efficient at detecting tree locations, estimating DBH, and supporting tree height measurements as confirmed with airborne laser data used for validation. This study is one of the first HLS-based studies conducted in the Mediterranean mixed forest region, where variability in tree allometries and spacing and the presence of natural regeneration pose challenges for the HLS approach. HLS is a feasible, time-efficient, scalable technology for tree mapping in mixed forests with potential to support forest monitoring programmes such as national forest inventories lacking three-dimensional, remote sensing data to support field measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. 基于模板匹配的铁路中心线提取方法研究.
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姚连璧, 陈军, 秦一, 范先铮, 孙盼盼, 刘昊, and 阮东旭
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The existing railway lines need to be updated with the ageing of railways and the demand for capacity increase, thus the surveying of railway lines is necessary without affecting its routine operations. However, the surveying of most of the existing railway lines still relies on traditional manual methods, which are characterized by low efficiency, heavy task, complex procedures, and repeated online. To address these priblems, this paper uses a least squares based 2D template point cloud matching approach to jointly and repeatedly calculate the rail track surface centre point position and then obtain the track centre line, track gauge and other related parameters based on absolute 3D point cloud data obtained by the track mobile laser scanning system. The test and result analysis at the track test site show that the proposed approach can effectively extract the track centre line and provide accurate centre line data for the existing line survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Mapping individual tree and plot-level biomass using airborne and mobile lidar in piñon-juniper woodlands
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Michael J. Campbell, Jessie F. Eastburn, Katherine A. Mistick, Allison M. Smith, and Atticus E.L. Stovall
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Aboveground biomass ,Airborne laser scanning ,Mobile laser scanning ,Lidar ,Piñon-juniper ,Dryland ecosystems ,Physical geography ,GB3-5030 ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
Piñon-juniper (PJ) woodlands are a widespread dryland ecosystem in the US containing an immense but poorly-constrained amount of aboveground biomass (AGB). Found at the dry end of the climatic range within which trees can persist, PJ faces an uncertain future in a changing climate, giving unique importance to mapping its AGB, past, present, and future. Lidar remote sensing offers great potential towards that end with research in a range of tree-dominant ecosystems demonstrating a strong capacity for mapping AGB. However, studies applying lidar to the task of mapping AGB in PJ are few. Given the unique structural characteristics of PJ trees, which tend to be short in stature (
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45. Developing an H-BIM-Ready Model by Fusing Data from Different Sensors
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Psaltakis, Dimitrios-Ioannis, Fostini, Maria, Antonopoulos, Stavros, Mariettaki, Athena-Panag iota, Antonopoulos, Antonios, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Moropoulou, Antonia, editor, Georgopoulos, Andreas, editor, Doulamis, Anastasios, editor, Ioannides, Marinos, editor, and Ronchi, Alfredo, editor
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46. Classification of Mobile Laser Scanning Point Cloud in an Urban Environment Using kNN and Random Forest
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Seyfeli, Semanur, Ok, Ali Ozgun, Kacprzyk, Janusz, Series Editor, Gomide, Fernando, Advisory Editor, Kaynak, Okyay, Advisory Editor, Liu, Derong, Advisory Editor, Pedrycz, Witold, Advisory Editor, Polycarpou, Marios M., Advisory Editor, Rudas, Imre J., Advisory Editor, Wang, Jun, Advisory Editor, Ben Ahmed, Mohamed, editor, Boudhir, Anouar Abdelhakim, editor, Karaș, İsmail Rakıp, editor, Jain, Vipul, editor, and Mellouli, Sehl, editor
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47. Multi feature-rich synthetic colour to improve human visual perception of point clouds.
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Balado, Jesús, González, Elena, Rodríguez-Somoza, Juan L., and Arias, Pedro
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POINT cloud , *VISUAL perception , *COLOR , *MACHINE learning , *FEATURE selection , *VISUALIZATION , *DESCRIPTOR systems - Abstract
Although point features have shown their usefulness in classification with Machine Learning, point cloud visualization enhancement methods focus mainly on lighting. The visualization of point features helps to improve the perception of the 3D environment. This paper proposes Multi Feature-Rich Synthetic Colour (MFRSC) as an alternative non-photorealistic colour approach of natural-coloured point clouds. The method is based on the selection of nine features (reflectance, return number, inclination, depth, height, point density, linearity, planarity, and scattering) associated with five human perception descriptors (edges, texture, shape, size, depth, orientation). The features are reduced to fit the RGB display channels. All feature permutations are analysed according to colour distance with the natural-coloured point cloud and Image Quality Assessment. As a result, the selected feature permutations allow a clear visualization of the scene's rendering objects, highlighting edges, planes, and volumetric objects. MFRSC effectively replaces natural colour, even with less distorted visualization according to BRISQUE, NIQUE and PIQE. In addition, the assignment of features in RGB channels enables the use of MFRSC in software that does not support colorization based on point attributes (most commercially available software). MFRSC can be combined with other non-photorealistic techniques such as Eye-Dome Lighting or Ambient Occlusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. Assessing the Quality of the Leica BLK2GO Mobile Laser Scanner versus the Focus 3D S120 Static Terrestrial Laser Scanner for a Preliminary Study of Garden Digital Surveying.
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Del Duca, Graziella and Machado, Carol
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OPTICAL scanners , *GARDENS , *POINT cloud , *DATA mining , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations , *CULTURAL landscapes , *DOCUMENTATION , *DIGITAL libraries - Abstract
Gardens play a key role in the definition of the cultural landscape since they reflect the culture, identity, and history of a people. They also contribute to the ecological balance of the city. Despite the fact that gardens have an historic and social value, they are not protected as much as the rest of the existing heritage, such as architecture and archaeological sites. While methods of built-heritage mapping and monitoring are increasing and constantly improving to reduce built-heritage loss and the severe impact of natural disasters, the documentation and survey techniques for gardens are often antiquated. In addition, inventories are typically made by non-updated/updateable reports, and they are rarely in digital format or in 3D. This paper presents the results of a comprehensive study on the latest technology for laser scanning in gardens. We compared static terrestrial laser scanning and mobile laser scanning point clouds generated by the Focus 3D S120 and the Leica BLK2GO, respectively, to evaluate their quality for documentation, estimate tree attributes, and terrain morphology. The evaluation is based on visual observation, C2C comparisons, and terrain information extraction capabilities, i.e., M3C2 comparisons for topography, DTM generation, and contour lines. Both methods produced useful outcomes for the scope of the research within their limitations. Terrestrial laser scanning is still the method that offers accurate point clouds with a higher point density and less noise. However, the more recent mobile laser scanning is able to survey in less time, significantly reducing the costs for site activities, data post-production, and registration. Both methods have their own restrictions that are amplified by site features, mainly the lack of plans for the geometric alignment of scans and the simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) process. We offer a critical description of the issues related to the functionality of the two sensors, such as the operative range limit, light dependency, scanning time, point cloud completeness and size, and noise level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. A Method Based on Improved iForest for Trunk Extraction and Denoising of Individual Street Trees.
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Li, Zhiyuan, Wang, Jian, Zhang, Zhenyu, Jin, Fengxiang, Yang, Juntao, Sun, Wenxiao, and Cao, Yi
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URBAN trees , *TREE trunks , *POINT cloud , *ELECTRONIC data processing - Abstract
Currently, the street tree resource survey using Mobile laser scanning (MLS) represents a hot spot around the world. Refined trunk extraction is an essential step for 3D reconstruction of street trees. However, due to scanning errors and the effects of occlusion by various types of features in the urban environment, street tree point cloud data processing has the problem of excessive noise. For the noise points that are difficult to remove using statistical methods in close proximity to the tree trunk, we propose an adaptive trunk extraction and denoising method for street trees based on an improved iForest (Isolation Forest) algorithm. Firstly, to extract the individual tree trunk points, the trunk and the crown are distinguished from the individual tree point cloud through point cloud slicing. Next, the iForest algorithm is improved by conducting automatic calculation of the contamination and further used to denoise the tree trunk point cloud. Finally, the method is validated with five datasets of different scenes. The results indicate that our method is robust and effective in extracting and denoising tree trunks. Compared with the traditional Statistical Outlier Removal (SOR) filter and Radius filter denoising methods, the denoising accuracy of the proposed method can be improved by approximately 30% for noise points close to tree trunks. Compared to iForest, the proposed method automatically calculates the contamination, improving the automation of the algorithm. Our method can provide more precise trunk point clouds for 3D reconstruction of street trees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Strict rule-based automatic training data extraction using Mobile laser scanning in urban area.
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Ma, Zhenyu, Oude Elberink, Sander, Lin, Yaping, Xu, Panpan, Xiang, Binbin, Koch, Barbara, and Weinacker, Holger
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DATA extraction , *DEEP learning , *CITIES & towns , *POINT cloud , *LASERS , *TRAINING manuals - Abstract
To reduce the cost of manually annotating training data for supervised classifiers, we propose an automated approach to extract training data of urban objects in six classes: buildings, fences, man-made poles, vegetation, vehicles, and low objects. In this study, two segmentation algorithms are firstly implemented to generate meaningful objects from the non-ground point cloud. Then, we generated valid strict rules to label partial RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) planes and meaningful objects as training data. The strict rules are built upon the semantic knowledge formed by the features of geometric, eigenvalue, RANSAC plane, multidimensional slice, and relative location. The accuracy of strict rule-based (SRB) training data is higher than 98.5 % for buildings, man-made poles, vegetation, and vehicles. The accuracy of low objects and fences reaches 97.10 % and 94.99 %, respectively. Finally, we compared the performance of the KPConv and PointNET++ networks trained by SRB and manually labeled training data to evaluate the effectiveness of our training data. The KPConv overall accuracy using manually labeled and (SRB) training data are 91.5 % and 86.8 % in the Paris dataset, 95.6 % and 92.0 % in the Freiburg dataset, respectively. The experiments demonstrate that automatically labeled training data can achieve similar accuracy compared to manual labels when coupled with two deep learning networks. Therefore, SRB training data extraction can effectively deal with the problem of training data scarcity and provide significant advancements in urban point cloud classification, where manual labeling of training data remains a crucial challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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