The automatic classification of power lines from airborne light detection and ranging(LiDAR)data is a crucial task for power supply management.The methods for power line classification can be either supervised or unsu...The automatic classification of power lines from airborne light detection and ranging(LiDAR)data is a crucial task for power supply management.The methods for power line classification can be either supervised or unsupervised.Supervised methods might achieve high accuracy for small areas,but it is time consuming to collect training data over areas of different conditions and complexity.Therefore,unsupervised methods that can automatically work over different areas without sophisticated parameter tuning are in great demand.In this paper,we presented a hierarchical unsupervised LiDAR-based power line classification method that first screened the power line candidate points(including the power line corridor direction detection based on a layered Hough transform,connectivity analysis,and Douglas–Peucker simplification algorithm),followed by the extraction of contextual linear and angular features for each candidate laser points,and finally by setting the feature threshold values to identify the power line points.We tested the method over both forest and urban areas and found that the precision,recall and quality rates were up to 96.7%,88.8%and 78.3%,respectively,for the test datasets and were higher than the ones from a previously developed supervised classification method.Overall,our approach has the advantages of achieving relatively high accuracy and being relatively fast.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 41601426 and 41771462)the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation(grant number 2018JJ3155)+1 种基金the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Digital Mapping and Land Information Application of National Administration of Surveying,Map-ping and Geoinformation,Wuhan University(grant number GCWD201806)the China Scholarship Council(grant number 201708430040).
文摘The automatic classification of power lines from airborne light detection and ranging(LiDAR)data is a crucial task for power supply management.The methods for power line classification can be either supervised or unsupervised.Supervised methods might achieve high accuracy for small areas,but it is time consuming to collect training data over areas of different conditions and complexity.Therefore,unsupervised methods that can automatically work over different areas without sophisticated parameter tuning are in great demand.In this paper,we presented a hierarchical unsupervised LiDAR-based power line classification method that first screened the power line candidate points(including the power line corridor direction detection based on a layered Hough transform,connectivity analysis,and Douglas–Peucker simplification algorithm),followed by the extraction of contextual linear and angular features for each candidate laser points,and finally by setting the feature threshold values to identify the power line points.We tested the method over both forest and urban areas and found that the precision,recall and quality rates were up to 96.7%,88.8%and 78.3%,respectively,for the test datasets and were higher than the ones from a previously developed supervised classification method.Overall,our approach has the advantages of achieving relatively high accuracy and being relatively fast.
