• Korean Journal of Geomatics
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.115-122
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• 2004

NASA, NSF and USGS jointly conducted airborne LIDAR surveys to acquire numerous surface points with high densities over the Antarctic Dry Valleys and its vicinity, The huge set of these points retains two characteristics undesirable for DEM generation, which are unusually high blunder ratio and large variation of the local point densities. Hence, in order to not only reduce the undesirable effects due to these characteristics but also process the huge number of points within reasonable limits of time and resources, we developed an efficient, robust, nearly automatic approach to DEM generation. This paper reports about the application of this approach to generating high-resolution precise DEMs from the Antarctic LIDAR surveys and the evaluation of their accuracy.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• v.1
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• pp.504-507
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• 2006

Airborn Lidar technology has been applied to diverse applications with the advantages of accurate 3D information. Further, Lidar intensity, backscattered signal power, can provid us additional information regarding target's characteristics. Lidar intensity varies by the target reflectance, moisture condition, range, and viewing geometry. This study purposes to generate normalized airborne LiDAR intensity image considering those influential factors such as reflectance, range and geometric/topographic factors (scan angle, ground height, aspect, slope, local incidence angle: LIA). Laser points from one flight line were extracted to simplify the geometric conditions. Laser intensities of sample plots, selected by using a set of reference data and ground survey, werethen statistically analyzed with independent variables. Target reflectance, range between sensor and target, and surface slope were main factors to influence the laser intensity. Intensity of laser points was initially normalized by removing range effect only. However, microsite topographic factor, such as slope angle, was not normalized due to difficulty of automatic calculation.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.46-55
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is a development of an automatic mosaicing for applying to large number of airborne multispectral images, which reduces manual operation by human. 2436 airborne multispectral images were acquired from DuncanTech MS4100 camera with three bands; green, red and near infrared. LIDAR(LIght Detection And Ranging) data and GPS/INS(global positioning system/inertial navigation system) data were collected with the multispectral images. First, the multispectral images were converted to image patterns by unsupervised classification. Their patterns were compared with those of adjacent images to derive relative spatial position between images. Relative spatial positions were derived for 80% of the whole images. Second, it accomplished an automatic mosaicing using GPS/INS data and unsupervised classification. Since the time of GPS/INS data did not synchronized the time of readout images, synchronized GPS/INS data with the time of readout image were selected in consecutive data by comparing unsupervised classified images. This method realized mosaicing automatically for 96% images and RMSE (root mean square error) for the spatial precision of mosaiced images was only 1.44 m by validation with LIDAR data.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.353-362
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• 2012

3D building modeling from airborne Lidar without model regularization may cause positional errors or topological inconsistency in building models. Regularization of 3D building models, on the other hand, restricts the types of models which can be reconstructed. To resolve these issues, this paper modelled 3D buildings from airborne Lidar by building model regularization which considers more various types of buildings. Building points are first segmented into roof planes by clustering in feature space and segmentation in object space. Then, 3D building models are reconstructed by consecutive adjustment of planes, lines, and points to satisfy parallelism, symmetry, and consistency between model components. The experimental results demonstrated that the method could make more various types of 3d building models with regularity. The effects of regularization on the positional accuracies of models were also analyzed quantitatively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.491-500
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• 2004

As the applications of 3D GIS rapidly increase, the need for acquisition and continuos update of urban models is increasingly emphasized. Particularly, building models has been considered as the most crucial component of urban models. Many researchers thus have focused on building extraction from mainly aerial photos or airborne LIDAR data but so far mostly failed to achieve satisfactory results in terms of both completeness and precision because of the intrinsic limitation of the sensory data themselves. Therefore, instead of the airborne sensors, we utilize a terrestrial LIDAR to generate precise and complete building models. This paper presents the overview of the sensors for data acquisition, describes data processing methods for building modelling from the acquired data and summerizes the experimental results.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.547-557
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• 2011

This study presents an approach for extracting boundaries of various buildings, which have concave boundaries, inner yards, non-right-angled corners, and nonlinear edges. The approach comprises four steps: building point segmentation, boundary tracing, boundary grouping, and regularization. In the second and third steps, conventional algorithms are improved for more accurate boundary extraction, and in the final step, a new algorithm is presented to extract nonlinear edges. The unique characteristics of airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data are considered in some steps. The performance and practicality of the presented algorithm were evaluated for buildings of various shapes, and the average omission and commission error of building polygon areas were 0.038 and 0.033, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2008

Lidar(Light Detection and Hanging, Ladar)는 물체에 반사되어 되돌아오는 광학신호를 관측하여 물체와의 거리를 측정하는 센서로 정밀한 3차원 모델 생성 및 도시지역의 변화탐지 등에 효율적으로 적용될 수 있다. 시뮬레이션은 시스템의 동작을 인공적으로 만들어 내고, 이 동작의 실행을 관찰하여 실제 시스템의 특성을 추론하는 일련의 활동으로, 하드웨어의 설계 및 분석, 보완, 성능 평가 등에 효율적으로 이용된다. 본 연구에서는 Lidar 시스템의 원리 및 구조 분석을 통해서 Lidar 데이터를 시뮬레이션하기 위한 소프트웨어를 설계하였다. Lidar의 특성이 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어에 정확하게 구현되도록 하기위해 Lidar 동작과 관련된 내부 및 외부요소를 분석하고 기능에 따라 추상화하여 소프트웨어 모들로 구성하였다. 시스템 내부요소로 송신부 수신부 신호/영상처리부 모델과 외부환경요소로 비행환경 모델, 타겟 모델, 대기 모델을 정의하였다. 또한, Lidar 시스템 실행 중에 발생하는 주요 프로세스를 함수 모듈로 정의함으로서, 모델들 간의 구조적인 관계를 정의하였다. 본 연구의 설계결과는 이후 Lidar시뮬레이션 소프트웨어의 보다 체계적인 구현에 적용될 예정이다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.512-514
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• 2005

Accurate DEM surface of forest floor is very important to extract any meaningful information regarding forest stand structure, such as tree heights, stand density, crown morphology, and biomass. In airborne lidar data processing, DEM data of forest floor is mostly generated by interpolating those elevation points obtained from last laser returns. In this study, we try to analyze the property of the last laser return under relatively dense forest canopy. Airborne laser data were obtained over the study area in relatively dense pine plantation forest. Two DEM data were generated by using all the points in the last laser returns and using only those points after removing non-ground points. From the preliminary analysis on these DEM data, we found that more than half of points among the last laser returns are actually hit from canopy, branches, and understory vegetation that should be removed before generating the surface DEM data.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.153-155
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• 2003

Laser scanning has become a viable technique for the collection of a large amount of accurate 3D point data densely distributed on the scanned object surface. The inherent 3D nature of the sub-randomly distributed point cloud provides abundant spatial information. To explore valuable spatial information from laser scanned data becomes an active research topic, for instance extracting digital elevation model, building models, and vegetation volumes. The sub-randomly distributed point cloud should be segmented and classified before the extraction of spatial information. This paper investigates some exist segmentation methods, and then proposes an octree-based split-and-merge segmentation method to divide lidar data into clusters belonging to 3D planes. Therefore, the classification of lidar data can be performed based on the derived attributes of extracted 3D planes. The test results of both ground and airborne lidar data show the potential of applying this method to extract spatial features from lidar data.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.150-152
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• 2003

Laser scanned lidar data record 3D surface information in detail. Exploring valuable spatial information from lidar data is a prerequisite task for its applications, such as DEM generation and 3D building model reconstruction. However, the inherent spatial information is implicit in the abundant, densely and randomly distributed point cloud. This paper proposes a novel method to organize point cloud data, so that further analysis or feature extraction can proceed based on a well organized data model. The principle of the proposed algorithm is to segment point cloud into 3D planes. A split and merge segmentation based on the octree structure is developed for the implementation. Some practical airborne and ground lidar data are tested for demonstration and discussion. We expect this data organization could provide a stepping stone for extracting spatial information from lidar data.