Comparative Study Of Several Mathematical Methods for building Continuous surface Based On 3D Laser Scanning Clouds


Abstract in English

In this paper, comparisons between several mathematical interpolation methods applied on high accuracy and huge laser clouds which only represents the DTM. In order to implicate the aforementioned, a group of a variety of Laser Scanned Areas has been chosen to represent different types of terrain including complex and flat terrain, taking into account that man-made features are not involved in this study and that different Laser Clouds density is used to make the study more general. A different set of algorithms were applied to conclude which one is more suitable. This step was followed by the comparison between different interpolation results. The results have shown that the Points' Density has a great impact on a manner in which the optimal interpolation method is applied. Moreover, it has proven that the Nearest Neighbor Algorithm is the best applied method compared with the other alternatives

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