The invention discloses a method of filtering an airborne
LiDAR (
Light Detection and
Ranging)
point cloud. The method comprises the following steps of firstly, carrying out gross error
elimination and
regular grid transformation on
LiDAR point cloud data so as to generate a depth image; secondly, computing a segmented elevation threshold through an Otsu
algorithm in an image threshold segmentation technology, and carrying out iterative rough classification of ground points and non-ground points on the
point cloud data, which are obtained before
regular grid transformation and
resampling, through the threshold; lastly, respectively carrying out progressive
triangulation network filtering on the classified ground points and non-ground points through the two different thresholds, and outputting
network construction point
cloud data, namely, ground
point data. According to the method, the point
cloud data, which participate in a filtering process, are data, which are obtained before
regular grid transformation and
resampling, so that the problem of accuracy loss of the point cloud due to regular grid transformation can be effectively avoided; a categorical attribute guidance is provided for the progressive
triangulation network filtering, a filtering strategy is correspondingly adjusted for different
terrain conditions, so that a better filtering effect is obtained.