Automatic morphological filtering algorithm for airborne lidar data in urban areas
- 1 February 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 58 (4), 1164-1173
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.58.001164
Abstract
Filtering is a key step for most airborne lidar post-applications in urban areas. To solve the problems of complex parameter settings and low filtering accuracy in complicated urban environments, an automatic morphological filter was proposed. In this paper, the optimal maximum filtering window can be determined automatically by applying a series of morphological top-hat operations. Meanwhile, the thresholds for filtering were calculated adaptively according to the gradient changes. Seven publicly available data sets provided by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing were used to evaluate the performance. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieved an average total error of 4.07% and an average kappa coefficient of 90.90%, which are the best performances when compared to some other filtering methods.Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41801325, 41861052, 41874001)
- Education Department of Jiangxi Province (GJJ170449)
- Key Laboratory for Digital Land and Resources of Jiangxi Province, East China University of Technology (DLLJ201806)
- East China University of Technology Ph.D. Project (DHBK2017155)
- Spark Planning Project of Jiangxi Province (20161BBB29002)
- Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology and Geographical Environment Monitoring (WE2016006)
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