A Strip Adjustment Method of UAV-Borne LiDAR Point Cloud Based on DEM Features for Mountainous Area
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Zequan Chen, Jianping Li, Bisheng Yang
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Due to the trajectory error of the low-precision position and orientation system (POS) used in unmanned aerial laser scanning (ULS), discrepancies usually exist between adjacent LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) strips. Strip adjustment is an effective way to eliminate these discrepancies. However, it is difficult to apply existing strip adjustment methods in mountainous areas with few artificial objects. Thus, digital elevation model-iterative closest point (DEM-ICP), a pair-wise registration method that takes topography features into account, is proposed in this paper. First, DEM-ICP filters the point clouds to remove the non-ground points. Second, the ground points are interpolated to generate continuous DEMs. Finally, a point-to-plane ICP algorithm is performed to register the adjacent DEMs with the overlapping area. A graph-based optimization is utilized following DEM-ICP to estimate the correction parameters and achieve global consistency between all strips. Experiments were carried out using eight strips collected by ULS in mountainous areas to evaluate the proposed method. The average root-mean-square error (RMSE) of all data was less than 0.4 m after the proposed strip adjustment, which was only 0.015 m higher than the result of manual registration (ground truth). In addition, the plane fitting accuracy of lateral point clouds was improved 4.2-fold, from 1.565 to 0.375 m, demonstrating the robustness and accuracy of the proposed method.
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