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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-45-2014</article-id>
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<article-title>Terrestrial Method for Airborne Lidar Quality Control and Assessment</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Alsubaie</surname>
<given-names>N. M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Badawy</surname>
<given-names>H. M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Elhabiby</surname>
<given-names>M. M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>El-Sheimy</surname>
<given-names>N.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Public Works Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>07</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2014</year>
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<volume>XL-1</volume>
<fpage>45</fpage>
<lpage>49</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2014 N. M. Alsubaie et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
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<p>Most of LiDAR systems do not provide the end user with the calibration and acquisition procedures that can use to validate the
quality of the data acquired by the airborne system. Therefore, this system needs data Quality Control (QC) and assessment
procedures to verify the accuracy of the laser footprints and mainly at building edges. This research paper introduces an efficient
method for validating the quality of the airborne LiDAR point clouds data using terrestrial laser scanning data integrated with edge
detection techniques. This method will be based on detecting the edge of buildings from these two independent systems. Hence, the
building edges are extracted from the airborne data using an algorithm that is based on the standard deviation of neighbour point&apos;s
height from certain threshold with respect to centre points using radius threshold. The algorithm is adaptive to different point
densities. The approach is combined with another innovative edge detection technique from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds
that is based on the height and point density constraints. Finally, statistical analysis and assessment will be applied to compare these
two systems in term of edge detection extraction precision, which will be a priori step for 3D city modelling generated from
heterogeneous LiDAR systems</p>
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