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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/isprs-archives-XLVIII-2-W8-2024-227-2024</article-id>
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<article-title>Automated detection and structuration of building and vegetation changes from LiDAR point clouds</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kharroubi</surname>
<given-names>Abderrazzaq</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ballouch</surname>
<given-names>Zouhair</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<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>Jeddoub</surname>
<given-names>Imane</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>Hajji</surname>
<given-names>Rafika</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>Billen</surname>
<given-names>Roland</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>GeoScITY, UR SPHERES, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>College of Geomatic Sciences and Surveying Engineering, Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Rabat 10101, Morocco</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>14</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<volume>XLVIII-2/W8-2024</volume>
<fpage>227</fpage>
<lpage>233</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2024 Abderrazzaq Kharroubi et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Urban environments are continuously changing, driven by factors such as population growth and infrastructure expansion, which necessitates regular updates to urban models. Accurate, up-to-date information on these changes is critical, particularly for national mapping agencies monitoring long-term urban development. This paper presents an automated methodology for detecting building and vegetation changes within urban environments using LiDAR point clouds, focusing on the city of Li&amp;egrave;ge in Belgium. By leveraging recent aerial LiDAR data from 2022, our approach identifies, models, and integrates urban changes into a refined 3D Digital Twin model of Li&amp;egrave;ge. The methodology includes preprocessing steps such as coordinate systems homogenization, noise filtering, and octree-based spatial indexing, followed by semantic and instance segmentation of point clouds using the RandLA-Net deep learning model. The change detection process focuses on four categories: appearance, disappearance, modification, and unchanged features. Achieving 100% accuracy for detecting new buildings changes, as validated within the study dataset and methodology. The modelled results are structured into a CityJSON city model. This automated approach significantly enhances urban model updates by integrating detected changes into a standardized 3D representation.</p>
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