Automatic Extraction of High-Voltage Bundle Subconductors Using Airborne LiDAR Data

被引:12
作者
Munir, Nosheen [1 ]
Awrangjeb, Mohammad [1 ]
Stantic, Bela [1 ]
机构
[1] Griffith Univ, Inst Integrated & Intelligent Syst, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia
关键词
power lines; LiDAR; span; conductors; pylons; extraction; LASER-SCANNING DATA; TRANSMISSION-LINES; POWER; VEGETATION; DISTANCE; SYSTEM;
D O I
10.3390/rs12183078
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Overhead high-voltage conductors are the chief components of power lines and their safety has a strong influence on social and daily life. In the recent decade, the airborne laser scanning (ALS) technique has been widely used to capture the three-dimensional (3D) information of power lines and surrounding objects. Most of the existing methods focused on extraction of single conductors or extracted all conductors as one object class by applying machine learning techniques. Nevertheless, power line corridors (PLCs) are built with multi-loop, multi-phase structures (bundle conductors) and exist in intricate environments (e.g., mountains and forests), and thus raise challenges to process ALS data for extraction of individual conductors. This paper proposes an automated method to extract individual subconductors in bundles from complex structure of PLCs using a combined image- and point-based approach. First, the input point cloud data are grouped into 3D voxel grid and PL points and separated from pylon and tree points using the fact that pylons and trees are vertical objects while power lines are non-vertical objects. These pylons are further separated from trees by employing a statistical analysis technique and used to extract span points between two consecutive pylons; then, by using the distribution properties of power lines in each individual span, the bundles located at different height levels are extracted using image-based processing; finally, subconductors in each bundle are detected and extracted by introducing a window that slides over the individual bundle. The orthogonal plane transformation and recursive clustering procedures are exploited in each window position and a point-based processing is conducted iteratively for extraction of complete individual subconductors in each bundle. The feasibility and validity of the proposed method are verified on two Australian sites having bundle conductors in high-voltage transmission lines. Our experiments show that the proposed method achieves a reliable result by extracting the real structure of bundle conductors in power lines with correctness of 100% and 90% in the two test sites, respectively.
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