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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-3-W3-535-2015</article-id>
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<article-title>AD HOC MODEL GENERATION USING MULTISCALE LIDAR DATA FROM A GEOSPATIAL DATABASE</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gordon</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Borgmann</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gehrung</surname>
<given-names>J.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hebel</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Arens</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB Ettlingen, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>20</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XL-3/W3</volume>
<fpage>535</fpage>
<lpage>541</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2015 M. Gordon et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Due to the spread of economically priced laser scanning technology nowadays, especially in the field of topographic surveying and
mapping, ever-growing amounts of data need to be handled. Depending on the requirements of the specific application, airborne,
mobile or terrestrial laser scanners are commonly used. Since visualizing this flood of data is not feasible with classical approaches like
raw point cloud rendering, real time decision making requires sophisticated solutions. In addition, the efficient storage and recovery
of 3D measurements is a challenging task. Therefore we propose an approach for the intelligent storage of 3D point clouds using a
spatial database. For a given region of interest, the database is queried for the data available. All resulting point clouds are fused in a
model generation process, utilizing the fact that low density airborne measurements could be used to supplement higher density mobile
or terrestrial laser scans. The octree based modeling approach divides and subdivides the world into cells of varying size and fits one
plane per cell, once a specified amount of points is present. The resulting model exceeds the completeness and precision of every single
data source and enables for real time visualization. This is especially supported by data compression ratios of about 90%.</p>
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