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  • Efficient method for lossless LIDAR data compression
    Mongus, Domen ; Žalik, Borut
    Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) has become one of the prime technologies for rapid collection of vast spatial data, usually stored in a LAS file format (LIDAR data exchange format standard). In ... this article, a new method for lossless LIDAR LAS file compression is presented. The method applies three consequent steps: a predictive coding, a variable-length coding and an arithmetic coding. The key to the method is the prediction schema, where four different predictors are used: three predictors for x, y and z coordinates and a predictor for scalar values, associated with each LIDAR point. The method has been compared with the popular general-purpose methods and with a method developed specially for compressing LAS files. The proposed method turns out to be the most efficient in all test cases. On average, the LAS file is losslessly compressed to 12% of its original size.
    Source: International journal of remote sensing. - ISSN 0143-1161 (Vol. 32, no. 9, 2011, str. 2507-2518)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2011
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 14953494
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