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- Title
Registration of Aerial Imagery and Lidar Data in Desert Areas Using the Centroids of Bushes as Control Information.
- Authors
Na Li; Xianfeng Huang; Fan Zhang; Le Wang
- Abstract
Geometric registration of multiple-source data is of great value for fusion processing and is very beneficial for the research of desert ecosystems. A lidar point cloud and optical image are two typical data that need to be integrated for data assimilation and information retrieval. This paper aims to solve the registration problem of aerial imagery and airborne lidar data in desert areas where traditional registration methods have difficulties in identifying registration primitives. In many deserts, such as the Sahara in Africa and Gobi in China, we observe that there are unevenly distributed desert bushes, which can be used as cues for registration. In this paper, we propose a registration approach using the centroids of bushes as registration primitives. This approach employs similar triangles created from both centroids as the evidence for matching and verifies the registration by the RANSAC algorithm. Experiments using data taken from the Dunhuang Gobi Desert in China show the registration surface model visually, and at the same time quantifies the deviation error, which corroborates that the proposed registration method is effective and feasible in desert areas.
- Subjects
LIDAR; IMAGING systems; CENTROID; DESERT research; GEOSPATIAL data
- Publication
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 2013, Vol 79, Issue 8, p743
- ISSN
0099-1112
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14358/PERS.79.8.743