The use of helicopters as a sensor platform offers flexible fields of application due to adaptable flying speed at low flight levels. Modern helicopters are equipped with radar altimeters, inertial navigation systems (INS), forward-looking cameras and even laser scanners for automatic obstacle avoidance. If the 3D geometry of the terrain is already available, the analysis of airborne laser scanner (ALS) measurements may also be used for terrain-referenced navigation and change detection. In this paper, we present a framework for on-the-fly comparison of current ALS data to given reference data of an urban area. In contrast to classical difference methods, our approach extends the concept of occupancy grids known from robot mapping. However, it does not blur the measured information onto the grid cells. The proposed change detection method applies the Dempster–Shafer theory to identify conflicting evidence along the laser pulse propagation path. Additional attributes are considered to decide whether detected changes are of man-made origin or occurring due to seasonal effects. The concept of online change detection has been successfully validated in offline experiments with recorded ALS data streams. Results are shown for an urban test site at which multi-view ALS data were acquired at an interval of 1 year. 相似文献
Anomaly analysis is used for various geophysics applications such as determination of geophysical structure's location and
border detections. Besides the classical geophysical techniques, artificial intelligence based image processing algorithms
have been found attractive for geophysical anomaly analysis. Recently, cellular neural networks (CNN) have been applied to
geophysical data and satisfactory results are reported. CNN provides fast and parallel computational capability for geophysical
image processing applications due to its filtering structure. The behavior of CNN is defined by two template matrices that
are adjusted by a properly supervised learning algorithm. After training stage for geophysical data, Bouguer anomaly maps
can be processed and analyzed sequentially. In this paper, CNN learning and processing capability have been improved, combining
Wavelet functions and backpropagation learning algorithms. The new architecture is denoted as Wavelet-Cellular Neural networks
(Wave-CNN) and it is employed to analyze Bouguer anomaly maps which are important to extract useful information in geophysics.
At first, Wave-CNN performance is tested on synthetic geophysical data, which are created by a computer environment. Then,
Bouguer anomaly maps of the Dumluca iron ore field have been analyzed and results are reported in comparison to real drilling
results. 相似文献