{"title":"MATLAB tools for lidar data conversion, visualization, and processing","authors":"Xiao Wang, Kai Zhou, Jie Yang, Yilong Lu","doi":"10.1117/12.912529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912529","url":null,"abstract":"LIDAR (LIght Detection and Ranging) [1] is an optical remote sensing technology that has gained increasing acceptance for topographic mapping. LIDAR technology has higher accuracy than RADAR and has wide applications. The relevant commercial market for LIDAR has developed greatly in the last few years. LAS format is approved to be the standard data format for interchanging LIDAR data among different software developers, manufacturers and end users. LAS data format reduces the data size compared to ASCII data format. However, LAS data file can only be visualized by some expensive commercial software. There are some free tools available, but they are not user-friendly and have less or poor visualization functionality. This makes it difficult for researchers to investigate and use LIDAR data. Therefore, there is a need to develop an efficient and low cost LIDAR data toolbox. For this purpose we have developed a free and efficient Matlab tool for LIDAR data conversion, visualization and processing.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133039458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast processing of discrete data based on dynamical regular grid nets","authors":"Lichun Sui, Jianfeng Zhu, Shuo Zhang, Jonathan Li","doi":"10.1117/12.912833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912833","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of LIDAR, InSAR and other new technologies used in the data acquisition, the three dimensional point cloud data has become a very important data source in the Geomatics applications. LIDAR provide a convenient way to acquire a massive three dimensional point data. A high efficiency algorithm for the management and searching of LIDAR data is an important foundation of the procedure of LIDAR processing such as filtering, display and threedimensional reconstruction. How to deal with a large amount of discrete data is not only one of the focuses and challenges in the area of LIDAR point cloud data processing, but also an important content in some other areas such as the DEM generation. While in some ways the storage, organization and management solutions of these massive points will affect the efficiency and accuracy in the following processing. In this paper a dynamical regular grid nets method will be introduced. This method will then be used in some airborne LIDAR filtering experiments of different areas. We will see the procedure and result of the point cloud data processing using this dynamic regular grid nets method. Accordingly, the effectiveness of this method will be proved.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123219455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An unorganized point cloud simplification based on boundary point extraction","authors":"Xiao-qi Lan, Hong Zhang, B. Duan","doi":"10.1117/12.912977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912977","url":null,"abstract":"In the reverse engineering, the dense and disordered point cloud data contain a huge number of redundancy, which inevitably leads to the significant challenges for the tasks of the subsequent data processing. This paper presents a single axis searching arithmetic to obtain the neighborhood information of a point cloud, and then based on all boundary points extracted and reserved, a non-uniform data reduction scheme, according to a specified curvature threshold and the proportion of reserved points in the k-nearest neighbors, is proposed. The experimental result shows that this approach has a strong ability for identifying boundary points, and can directly and effectively reduce the point cloud data, meanwhile keep the original geometric feature.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122147589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel segmentation method of high resolution remote sensing image based on object-oriented Markov random fields model","authors":"L. Hong, Xianchun Pan, Zhaozhong Gao, Kun Yang","doi":"10.1117/12.912791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912791","url":null,"abstract":"A novel methodology base on object-oriented MRF is proposed in order to obtain precise segmentation of high resolution satellite image. Conventional pixel-by-pixel MRF model methods only consider spatial correlation and texture of each pixel fixed square neighborhood. The segmentation method based on pixel-by-pixel MRF model usually suffers from salt and pepper noise. Based on the analysis of problems existing in pixel-by pixel MRF model methods of highresolution remote sensed images, an object-oriented MRF-based segmentation algorithm is proposed. The proposed method is made up of two blocks: (1) Mean-Shift algorithm is employed to obtain the over-segmentation results and the primary processing units are generated based on which the object adjacent graph (OAG) can be constructed. (2) MRF model is easily defined on the OAG, in which special features of pixels are modeled in the feature field model and the neighbor system, potential cliques and energy functions of OAG are exploited in the labeling model. The proposed segmentation method is evaluated on high resolution remote sensed image data-IKONOS. The experimental results show the proposed method can improve the segmentation accuracy while simultaneously obviating \"salt and pepper noise\" phenomenon and reducing the computational complexity greatly.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122729718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power transmission tower monitoring technology based on TerraSAR-X products","authors":"Liu Yan, Wenhao Wu, Tao Li","doi":"10.1117/12.912336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912336","url":null,"abstract":"Synthetic aperture radar signal can propagate through hazardous weather and atmospheric conditions with heavy capabilities of SARs have attracted significant interest in remote sensing communities. The high-resolutions radar satellite missions like TerraSAR-X has launched in June 2007 and the images reach 1 m in azimuth and range in spotlight mode. Due to the high resolution, the detailed information of the observed scene we can distinguish from the TerraSAR-X HS mode image according to the SAR geometry of single-look slant-range complex data. This paper is concerned with the technique of how to use spaceborne SAR technology in a wide range of natural disaster conditions to monitor the power grid's security in particular. The power transmission tower in HS mode product is very distinguishable and the reflected forms of them are no longer point targets, so the extraction of tower height can be achieved from the single image of SSC product. At last the status of power transmission tower can be assessed based on the result of height extraction in the emergency response for the sudden natural public Disaster.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129826802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring ground subsidence in Jiaxing region using Envisat data","authors":"Tao Li, Jicang Wu, Lina Zhang","doi":"10.1117/12.912722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912722","url":null,"abstract":"Jiaxing is 110 kilometers far away from Shanghai, the high speed railway and the planed maglev from Shanghai to Hangzhou cross Jiaxing city. It is very important to monitor ground subsidence in Jiaxing region for the safe running of the high speed railways. However, the traditional ground subsidence measurement methods, such as precise leveling and GPS, have a very low spatial resolution and are laborious. DInSAR technology is a new effective method for monitoring ground subsidence with high resolution and accuracy, but due to the influence of many kinds of noises, the interferograms cannot reveal ground deformation directly. In this work, small baseline subset (SBAS) method is applied to extract the ground subsidence information. SBAS can reduce the effects of topographic error and spatial decorrelation, and also increase the number of useable InSAR pairs. Totally 13 scenes of the Envisat SAR images covering Jiaxing region between 2008 and 2009 are chosen and processed. The results show that a funnel shaped ground subsidence appears at Pinghu city.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121209479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power supply topology for lidar system onboard UAV platform","authors":"Guoqing Zhou, Jiazhi Yang, Xincheng Yu, Wei Zhu","doi":"10.1117/12.912607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912607","url":null,"abstract":"Laser diode adopted in LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) onboard a small low-cost UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - UAV) platform usually requires its carried components to be light in weight, small in volume, and specially efficient in energy supply. A DC-DC converter and a fast switch are often applied for the traditional power supply to drive the LiDAR system. This traditional method is not proper for application in a UAV platform. This paper provides a novel power supply topology, which consists of two coupled coils, pulse generator circuit, and a fast switch. The power supply topology has been designed, assembled, tested, and confirmed to generate pulse voltage of 100-300 V, up to 120 A pulse current, 50-200 μs pulse width, and 50 Hz maximum pulse frequency. The driver circuit is very simple, but could restrain current surge efficiently. This ensures that the laser diode does not be disturbed. It is demonstrated that it is sufficient to drive a laser diode used in LiDAR onboard UAV, and meets the requirement of weight and volume. Now the driver has been manufactured for application in UAV-based airborne lidar sample system.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122266436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance analysis of weak target detection via ground-based synthetic aperture radar","authors":"Yongsheng Zhou, Mei Zhou, L. Tang, Chuanrong Li","doi":"10.1117/12.912596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912596","url":null,"abstract":"Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (Pol-InSAR) is an emerging technique that combines interferometric SAR and polarimetric SAR techniques and has shown its effectiveness in the detection of buried weak targets. The detection performance is affected by the SAR parameters as well as the covering characteristics. In this paper, the effects of covering characteristics on the detection performance were emphasized and experimentally investigated by a ground-based Pol-InSAR system. Firstly, the detection principle for buried weak target by Pol-InSAR technique was presented, which is based on the use of interferometric coherence variation with polarization. Then the ground-based two dimensional rail (TDR) SAR used for investigation was introduced. Furthermore, the experiment target scene was designed and the effects of different covering type, different covering moisture, and different covering depth on the detection performance of weak targets were shown and analyzed. Preliminary results confirmed the effectiveness of Pol-InSAR technique used for weak target detection and it would be helpful for the further investigation of this technique.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121396739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deformation monitoring in Hanyuan reservoir resettlement of Pubugou Hydropower Station using PS-InSAR","authors":"M. He, Xiufeng He","doi":"10.1117/12.912510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912510","url":null,"abstract":"Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a very effective technique for measuring surface deformation, but the temporal and geometrical decorrelation and atmospheric disturbances can strongly compromise the accuracy of the results. Persistent scatterer InSAR (PS-InSAR) overcomes the decorrelation and atmospheric disturbances problem by identifying resolution elements whose echo is dominated by a single scatterer in a series of interferograms. The results obtained by PS-InSAR technique are not the field deformation information but persistent scatterers deformation. In this paper, PS-InSAR is used to investigate surface deformation caused by landslide hazards in Hanyuan reservoir resettlement, China. The subsidence map derived from Envisat ASAR data between May 2008 and Oct 2009 reveals the spatial extent of the deformations and subsidence velocity. The experimental results show that there are instable areas which are located in the Middle of new Hanyuan county. The average deformation rate of the instable areas is over - 20mm. The Upper right and Lower left of new Hanyuan county are relatively stable.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117210257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing low-relief coastal estuaries watershed boundary and its surface water flow based-on lidar-derived digital elevation models: a case study of Jiangsu","authors":"Siqi Liu, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Mengpiao Xu, Yan Xie, Xianrong Ding, Changkuan Zhang","doi":"10.1117/12.913040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.913040","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional hydrologic analyses of digital elevation models (DEMs) perform well in areas of high topographic relief, where surface water flow is typically unidirectional, convergent, spatially static, and directed toward a single discharge point at the edge of a catchment. Such analyses do not perform well on landscapes with low topographic relief such as estuaries areas. where surface water flow is influenced by subtle topographic depressions and sea-land interaction, which may be bidirectional, divergent, and spatially dynamic in response to hydrologic forcing such as tides or variation in river discharge. We developed a framework for hydrologic analysis of low-relief landscapes using a high-resolution (0.2m) DEM derived from light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data collected over a Jiangsu Radiate Sand Ridges, China. Our approach assessed the pattern and characteristics of estuaries watershed and its hydrologic response drainage, where drainage boundaries were defined by subtle topographic divides across the Salt-marsh.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134542739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}