Urban terrain data modeling with adaptive dual marching tetrahedra and feature detecting techniques

  • Authors:
  • Gregory M. Nielson;Kun Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ;Handong Global University, Pohang, Kyungbuk, Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Information Science, Technology and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We describe some methods for developing mathematical models from data obtained from scanning (LIDAR) urban terrain environments consisting of a combination of man-made structures and natural geographic terrain. The methods exploit the efficiency provided by adaptive techniques and are based upon implicit mathematical models which permit the efficient implementation of some useful post processing operations. Also we introduce some new and very effective methods for detecting edges and corners implied by the data and use this information to extract conventional triangle mesh surfaces from the implicit models using the dual marching tetrahedra method.