Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2018, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 644-654.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2018.04.008

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Hybrid Index Method Based on Quad Tree and R-Tree for DEM Reconstruction of Airborne Point Cloud

PENG Bao-jiang1,2,3, ZHONG Ruo-fei1,2,3, SUN Hai-li1,2,3, GENG Yu-xin1,2,3   

  1. 1. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Technology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China;
    2. College of Resources Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China;
    3. Key Lab of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
  • Received:2017-01-07 Revised:2017-05-02 Online:2018-07-31 Published:2018-07-31

Abstract: Airborne laser point cloud features with quick and precise data acquisition, and it is a trend to build digital elevation model by using airborne radar data. However, the huge data volume of airborne laser scanning point cloud leads to low efficiency in processing the point cloud data. This paper proposes a hybrid spatial index method based on quad-tree and R-tree for digital elevation model (DEM) reconstruction, which is inspired by the ability for the fast segmentation of quad-tree and the self-balance of R-tree. First, the original point cloud data are used for constructing an index of external memory. Then the fulfilled regions of point cloud are imported into internal memory after traversing the index, and different regions of point cloud are filtered synchronously by means of morphological filtering method. Finally, the DEM can be constructed by regionally processing the acquired ground point data with the inverse distance weighted interpolation. The experimental result shows that this method can greatly improve the efficiency of data processing in DEM construction.

Key words: hybrid spatial index, R-tree index, digital elevation model (DEM), quad tree index

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