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An improved multi-resolution hierarchical classification method based on robust segmentation for filtering ALS point clouds
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The classification of airborne laser scanning (ALS) point clouds is a necessary step in the process of digital elevation model (DEM) construction. Motivated by the surface interpolation filtering scheme, a multi-resolution hierarchical classification (MHC) method was developed to perform classification in our previous research. However, similar to almost all filtering methods, MHC suffers from the problem of misclassifying off-terrain and ground points in complex landscapes with steep slopes and large discontinuities. To improve the classification accuracy in the above landscapes, the original MHC is improved in this article by adopting a region growing-based segmentation method to maximally capture the initial ground seeds of MHC. Furthermore, considering the high sensitivity of principle component analysis (PCA) to outliers, a robust PCA approach based on least trimmed squares (LTS) is proposed to estimate point normals. Fifteen groups of data sets provided by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Working Group III/3 are utilized to compare the performances of the improved and original MHCs. Results indicate that the improved MHC is more accurate than the original MHC, irrespective of accuracy measures. In addition, we also compare the results of our method with three new filtering methods developed in the years 2013 and 2014. It is found that regardless of landscapes (i.e. urban and rural samples), the improved MHC is averagely more accurate than the three filtering methods in terms of type II error, and irrespective of accuracy measures (i. e. types I, II and total errors), our method outperforms the three filtering methods for the rural samples. In short, the robust segmentation- based MHC demonstrates great potential to ALS-derived DEM construction in rural areas.
Keywords:
AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA
DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS
MORPHOLOGICAL FILTER
DEM GENERATION
ALGORITHM
INTERPOLATION
EXTRACTION
ACCURACY
DENSITY
AREAS
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