Author Affiliations
1College of Mapping and Geographics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China2Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of P. R. China, Beijing 100048, China3College of Geodesy Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Flow chart of algorithm
Fig. 2. Number of signal pulses in different filter core shapes
Fig. 3. Slope adaptation in flat areas
Fig. 4. Slope adaptation in areas with large gradient
Fig. 5. Histogram of point cloud density
Fig. 6. Point cloud density histogram with different noise rates
Fig. 7. Data distribution in the study area
Fig. 8. Original point cloud of data A
Fig. 9. Original point cloud of data B
Fig. 10. Adaptive results of spatial density of data A
Fig. 11. Adaptive results of spatial density of data B
Fig. 12. Final denoising result of data A
Fig. 13. Final denoising result of data B
Fig. 14. Comparison between signal point cloud extracted in this paper and ATL03 signal in data A
Fig. 15. Comparison between signal point cloud extracted in this paper and ATL03 signal in data B
Fig. 16. Comparison between signal point cloud extracted in this paper and ATL08 signal in data A
Fig. 17. Comparison between signal point cloud extracted in this paper and ATL08 signal in data B
Fig. 18. Partial visual analysis of data A
Fig. 19. Partial visual analysis of data B
Fig. 20. Results of data A based on circular filter kernel
Fig. 21. Result of data A based on elliptic filter kernel
Item | Data A | Data B | R2 | 0.99 | 0.99 | RMSE/MHz | 2.9×10−2 | 1.15×10−2 | Maximum noise rate/MHz | 8.56 | 5.87 |
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Table 1. Comparison between ATL03 results and noise rate results proposed in the paper
Item | Data A | | Data B | ATL08 | Proposed algorithm | ATL08 | Proposed algorithm | Number of signal intersection points | 90762 | | 51128 | Total signal points | 90832 | 126285 | 51332 | 69602 | Proportion of intersection number | 0.99 | 0.72 | 0.99 | 0.73 | Proportion of intersection distance | 0.99 | 0.82 | 0.99 | 0.83 |
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Table 2. Comparison between ATL08 results and the results in this paper