McCarthy, Tim and Fotheringham, Stewart and Charlton, Martin and Winstanley, Adam C. and O'Malley, Vincent (2007) Integration of LiDAR and stereoscopic imagery for route corridor surveying. Mobile Mapping Technology, 37. pp. 1125-1130.

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Abstract

Transportation networks are, typically, one of the most economic valuable resources for any nation requiring a large percentage of GDP to build and maintain. These route corridors attract their own unique set of spatial information requirements in terms of overall management including planning, engineering and operation. Various disciplines within a road management agency require high quality, spatial data of objects and features occurring along these networks from road infrastructure, sub-surface pavement condition through to modelling noise. This paper examines the integration of relatively novel sensor data against some pressing spatial information requirements for a small European road management agency. LiDAR systems are widely available and now used to record data from both aerial and terrestrial survey platforms. One of the chief LiDAR outputs are X,Y,Z points enabling a reliable 2.5-D geometric surface to be produced. Stereoscopic imagery is also collected from similar airborne and terrestrial mobile platforms. Both provide different datasets in terms of their respective optical and geometric properties. For example, stereoscopic cameras mounted on a survey vehicle record different data compared to LiDAR mounted near vertically on an airborne platform. Airborne LiDAR provides a more comprehensive geometric record whereas stereoscopic imagery can be used to provide a more comprehensive visual descriptor of the immediate route corridor. Acquisition systems for both sensors are relatively well understood and developed. Both systems collect large volumes of data that require a significant amount of data processing in order to produce useful information. A more efficient result can be achieved by integrating these two datasets within a GIS. The preliminary results of integration of airborne LiDAR with ground based stereo imaging systems are presented. How well this integration satisfies the growing spatial information requirements of the road agency are also examined.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Stereoscopic; LiDAR; GIS; Data Fusion;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG
Item ID:	5818
Depositing User:	Martin Charlton
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2015 14:34
Journal or Publication Title:	Mobile Mapping Technology
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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