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Image-Aided LiDAR Mapping Platform and Data Processing Strategy for Stockpile Volume Estimation
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Manish, Raja Hasheminasab, Seyyed Meghdad Liu, Jidong Koshan, Yerassyl Mahlberg, Justin Anthony Lin, Yi-Chun Ravi, Radhika Zhou, Tian McGuffey, Jeremy Wells, Timothy Bullock, Darcy Habib, Ayman |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Description | Stockpile quantity monitoring is vital for agencies and businesses to maintain inventory of bulk material such as salt, sand, aggregate, lime, and many other materials commonly used in agriculture, highways, and industrial applications. Traditional approaches for volumetric assessment of bulk material stockpiles, e.g., truckload counting, are inaccurate and prone to cumulative errors over long time. Modern aerial and terrestrial remote sensing platforms equipped with camera and/or light detection and ranging (LiDAR) units have been increasingly popular for conducting high-fidelity geometric measurements. Current use of these sensing technologies for stockpile volume estimation is impacted by environmental conditions such as lack of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals, poor lighting, and/or featureless surfaces. This study addresses these limitations through a new mapping platform denoted as Stockpile Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART), which is designed and integrated as a time-efficient, cost-effective stockpile monitoring solution. The novel mapping framework is realized through camera and LiDAR data-fusion that facilitates stockpile volume estimation in challenging environmental conditions. LiDAR point clouds are derived through a sequence of data collections from different scans. In order to handle the sparse nature of the collected data at a given scan, an automated image-aided LiDAR coarse registration technique is developed followed by a new segmentation approach to derive features, which are used for fine registration. The resulting 3D point cloud is subsequently used for accurate volume estimation. Field surveys were conducted on stockpiles of varying size and shape complexity. Independent assessment of stockpile volume using terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) shows that the developed framework had close to 1% relative error. |
| Starting Page | 231 |
| e-ISSN | 20724292 |
| DOI | 10.3390/rs14010231 |
| Journal | Remote Sensing |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-01-05 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Remote Sensing Stockpile Volume Estimation Lidar Terrestrial Laser Scanner (tls) Segmentation Registration Rotation Estimation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
