The invention relates to the field of road safety protection, and discloses a
cliff road section
screening method and device, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining
digital elevation model data and road vector data of a plurality of regions; performing
anisotropic filtering processing for protecting topographic feature lines on the
digital elevation model data; calculating a topographic slope map according to the filtered
digital elevation model data, and screening the topographic slope map according to a preset slope threshold to generate a slope
binary image; on the basis of the filtered digital elevation model data, generating
contour line data according to a preset distance between preset contour lines, and obtaining a gradient candidate region set according to the road vector data; superposing the gradient
binary image and the gradient candidate region set to obtain a
cliff road section candidate region set; and obtaining a final
cliff-near candidate area set according to the cliff-
near road section candidate area set and the
contour line data, and obtaining a complete cliff-
near road section according to the road vector data and the final cliff-near candidate area set. According to the invention, the time and economic cost is obviously reduced, and the precision of cliff road section extraction is improved.