Abstract: Aiming at the problem of low extraction accuracy of power line point cloud caused by high fluctuation of field terrain height, complex trend, diverse forms of towers and uneven density of point cloud, a new power line point cloud extraction method with high automatic accuracy is proposed. The whole point cloud is segmented according to the power line direction. The iterative elevation threshold method is used to calculate the optimal threshold value of elevation segmentation, and the ground point, ground object point and power line point are segmented. DBSCAN density clustering method is used to cluster and eliminate the tower points, and part of the power line points mistakenly assigned to the tower points are further extracted by searching. Euclidean clustering method is used to extract single power line points. According to the actual transmission line point cloud data experiment, the total power line extraction accuracy of this method is 99%, the automatic and efficient extraction of power line point cloud is realized, and the actual demand of power inspection can be met.
Keywords: airborne LiDAR; power line extraction; complex terrain; point cloud; DBSCAN density clustering