System and method for improving signal to noise ratio in 3-D point data scenes under heavy obscuration
US7304645B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 15, 2004 |
| Grant date | Dec 4, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 13, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S7/4802
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method comprises loading LADAR point data into a three-dimensional voxel array as a plurality of components (304); determining connected components in the array (306); determining a size for each component and a hit count of occupied voxels (316); and determining whether each occupied voxel is to be written to an output file (312), wherein occupied voxels are written (312) to the output file according to a set of criteria based on statistics for determining when a voxel represents a light pulse reflected by a physical object.
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