Title :
Building detection by Dempster-Shafer fusion of LIDAR data and multispectral aerial imagery
Author :
Rottensteiner, Franz ; Trinder, John ; Clode, Simon ; Kubik, Kurt ; Lovell, Brian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Surveying & SIS, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
A method for the classification of land cover in urban areas by the fusion of first and last pulse LIDAR data and multi-spectral images is presented. Apart from buildings, the classes "tree", "grass land", and "bare soil" are also distinguished by a classification method based on the theory of Dempster-Shafer for data fusion. Examples are given for a test site in Germany.
Keywords :
optical radar; radar imaging; sensor fusion; uncertainty handling; Dempster-Shafer fusion; LIDAR data; building detection; data fusion; land cover classification; multispectral aerial imagery; Australia; Bayesian methods; Buildings; Filtering; Fusion power generation; Laser radar; Multispectral imaging; Surface morphology; Testing; Urban areas;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2128-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334203
