Lewis, Paul (2017) Automated extraction of road median from airborne laser scanning data. In: 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing - Space Applications: Touching Human Lives, ACRS 2017, 23-27 October 2017, New Delhi (India).
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Abstract
Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) systems enable the acquisition of an accurately georeferenced set of 3D dense point
cloud data that can be used to develop more efficient approaches for managing road infrastructures. These systems
can
contribute to the produc
tion of useful knowledge about road median, which is a narrow strip of land that separates
traffic on opposite sides of the road. The road median is one of the fundamental feature, whose correct identification
is a prerequisite to obtain precise informatio
n about road and other objects along it. The acquired ALS
data can be
used to locate, measure and classify the road median in a timely and
cost
-effective manner in order to facilitate their
maintenance.
In this paper, we present an automated algorithm
for
extracting road median from
ALS
data. We use
the road vector polylines to reduce the search space in the LiDAR data, which enables a more accurate estimation of
the road median.
The frequency distribution of elevation values is used to r
emove the crossing
highway
s above the
road sections. We threshold
the LiDAR elevation and intensity attributes to
get an initial estimation of the
road
median
. We make the
morphological operations
based knowledge analysis to complete the shape
of road median and
remove
oth
er road surface elements that are
introduced through the use of thresholding. We tested our algorithm on
two 1
-km road sections consisting of distinct types of road medians
based on
concrete and grass
-hedge barrier. T
he
successful extraction of
median
s along thes
e two road sections demonstrate
the robustness of our automated
algorithm. These research findings provide valuable insight and prototype road median extraction tool
-set for both
national road authorities and survey companies.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Keywords: | Airborne Laser Scanning; Attributes; Road Median; Frequency Distribution; Knowledge Analysis; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG |
Item ID: | 10440 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Paul Lewis |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2019 17:13 |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/10440 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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