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Extraction of buildings footprint from lidar altimetry data with the hermite transform

  • José Luis Silván-Cárdenas
  • , Le Wang
  • Centro de Investigación en Geografía y Geomática, Ing. Jorge L. Tamayo

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Abstract

Building footprint geometry is a basic layer of information required by government institutions for a number of land management operations and research. LiDAR (light detection and ranging) is a laser-based altimetry measurement instrument that is flown over relatively wide land areas in order to produce digital surface models. Although high spatial resolution LiDAR measurements (of around 1 m horizontally) are suitable to detect aboveground features through elevation discrimination, the automatic extraction of buildings in many cases, such as in residential areas with complex terrain forms, has proved a difficult task. In this study, we developed a method for detecting building footprint from LiDAR altimetry data and tested its performance over four sites located in Austin, TX. Compared to another standard method, the proposed method had comparable accuracy and better efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - Third Mexican Conference, MCPR 2011, Proceedings
Pages314-321
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event3rd Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2011 - Cancun, Mexico
Duration: Jun 29 2011Jul 2 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6718 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2011
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancun
Period06/29/1107/2/11

Keywords

  • Building footprint
  • Hermite Transform
  • Local Orientation

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