Date of Award
12-2007
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Engineering
Department
Electrical Engineering
Major Professor
Charalampidis, Dimitrios
Second Advisor
Jilkov, Vesselin
Third Advisor
Chen, Huimin
Abstract
A new approach to improve the determination of building boundaries through automatic processing of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data is presented. The LIDAR data is processed and interpolated into a grayscale image of intensity values corresponding to height measurements. Ground measurements are separated from non-ground measurements by using a progressive morphological filter. With these measurements now distinct, further separation of non-ground measurements into building and non-building measurements is performed by growing regions with similar characteristics. These building areas are then refined, resulting in a ground plan representation of building boundaries, known as building footprints. Several algorithms are then implemented to clean these footprints. A new method is developed to analyze actual known satellite imagery in order to confirm identified building footprints.
Recommended Citation
George, Henry C., "On the Determination of Building Footprints from LIDAR Data" (2007). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 605.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/605
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