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Geospatial Modeling Using LiDAR Technology

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Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a relatively new surveying technology with the ability to capture and represent a physical environment as never before. This technique has revolutionized the way the data are gathered in the topographical mapping, going from discrete data collection to a massive one. The main advantage of the technique is that it provides a direct method for 3D data collection with high accuracy. Unlike the traditional photogrammetric methods, it can directly collect accurately georeferenced sets of dense point clouds, which can be almost directly used in a variety of applications. Due to the relative novelty of this technology and the increasing interesting of its applications in different scopes, it is likely that new approaches for data processing will be developed in the near future. This paper introduces the technology and analyses the main processing stages of the LiDAR point clouds until the creation of relevant digital models.

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Acknowledgements

The work in this paper has been partially supported by FEDER funds for the MINECO project TIN2017-85827-P, and projects KK-2018/00071 and KK-2018/00082 of the Elkartek 2018 funding program of the Basque Government.

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  1. Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Nieves Cano 12, 01006, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

    Leyre Torre-Tojal

  2. Department of Systems Engineering and Automatic Control, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Nieves Cano 12, 01006, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

    Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede

  3. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 1, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

    Manuel Graña

  4. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

    Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede & Manuel Graña

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  2. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Faculdade de Engenharia/LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

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Torre-Tojal, L., Lopez-Guede, J.M., Graña, M. (2019). Geospatial Modeling Using LiDAR Technology. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 931. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16184-2_62

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