Abstract
In 3D city modelling, the importance of which has increased rapidly in recent years, building modelling is among the most frequently used application areas of LiDAR data. In this study, a data-driven approach was proposed for the extraction and reconstruction of roof planes from aerial LiDAR data using 3D RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm and tested in two areas (A1 and A2). First, ground filtering was performed. Then, region growing segmentation algorithm was applied to extract point set of each building from the building class detected through classification. The noise that exists on the extracted planar surfaces were detected and removed using the DBSCAN (Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) algorithm. For accuracy assessment, precision (p), recall (r), and F-score values were calculated. For study area A1, the mean values for p, r and F-score were computed as 86%, 87% and 85%, respectively. For study area A2, these values were computed as 92%, 93% and 92%, respectively. The higher density of point cloud and smoother roof geometry appear to have affected the results positively in study area A2. Besides, the noise was more successfully detected in study area A2, which increased the accuracy rates.