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other buildings into one segment during the building extraction
step. Otherwise, the segment was found to be modified. All the
not-altered and modified buildings were detected correctly, too.
Only the both groups of modified buildings - added-on and
reduced — contain ambiguities in the interpretation of the
received results. It showed that the approach to rate all
segments separately, i.e. the ones obtained from the elder DSM
independently from those received analysing the newer DSM,
already helps to interpret the majority of changes correctly.
Nevertheless, the method can not provide the full information
necessary in the context of disaster management. But it helps to
extract those buildings which possibly undergone a damage by
indicating them as reduced. Such buildings can than be
analysed by a more sophisticated methodology, e.g. based on
extracted CAD models, which therefore needs more processing
time, too. As disaster management is a time-critical task, a
prefixed fast filtering of the data, like the method presented,
makes sense.
Besides the application in disaster management, the results
obtained using the approach can be used for lots of other
purposes, too. As the object-based approach allows to detect
changes better than a simple subtraction of DSMs, it could be
used e.g. for a nearly automatically update of spatial databases
in urban environments.
Significant improvement of the method could be achieved by
applying methods to avoid merging several buildings into one
segment. This could for instance be done by introducing a
segment splitting methodology based on a simultaneously
comparison of the segments from both dates in conjunction
with the both DSMs.
To improve the information stored in a spatial database of urban
areas, the buildings found to be unchanged could be used for an
improvement of the information already stored in the database.
For instance, a 3D-modelling of buildings could be applied for
several dates independently and the results merged with the
already stored 3D information to consecutively improve the
models accuracy.
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The authors would like to thank Deutsche Forschungs-
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