A Stratified Intensity Correction to Alleviate Striping Effect in Multispectral ALS Data
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Abstract
LiDAR users often struggle with the heterogeneity in airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, particularly dealing with large-scale scanning that likely exhibits significant intensity inconsistencies due to varying scanning angles and ranges. This study introduces a stratified intensity correction approach to mitigate the overlap striping effect commonly observed in multispectral ALS point clouds. By integrating an octree-based region-growing algorithm with an iterative weighted least squares regression, our approach effectively segments the multispectral ALS point clouds into homogeneous regions, thereby enhancing the consistency of intensity values across overlap scans after applying intensity correction to each identified homogeneous region. We conduct a comparative analysis using a multispectral ALS dataset and evaluate the coefficient of variation (cv) in two distinct areas across three channels. Our method demonstrates a reduction of cv by 1.4–9%, indicating improved stability and reliability. These results suggest that our approach not only visually reduces striping effect but also enhances the data quality of multispectral ALS data for environmental monitoring and resource management.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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