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Articles | Volume XLIII-B2-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-317-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-317-2020
12 Aug 2020
 | 12 Aug 2020

CREATING MULTI-TEMPORAL MAPS OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTS FOR IMPROVED LOCALIZATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

J. Schachtschneider and C. Brenner

Keywords: LiDAR, Mobile Mapping, Dynamic Environments, 3D Modelling, Localization

Abstract. The development of automated and autonomous vehicles requires highly accurate long-term maps of the environment. Urban areas contain a large number of dynamic objects which change over time. Since a permanent observation of the environment is impossible and there will always be a first time visit of an unknown or changed area, a map of an urban environment needs to model such dynamics.

In this work, we use LiDAR point clouds from a large long term measurement campaign to investigate temporal changes. The data set was recorded along a 20 km route in Hannover, Germany with a Mobile Mapping System over a period of one year in bi-weekly measurements. The data set covers a variety of different urban objects and areas, weather conditions and seasons. Based on this data set, we show how scene and seasonal effects influence the measurement likelihood, and that multi-temporal maps lead to the best positioning results.