Detection of Terrain Skeleton Lines based on Laser Scanning Data

The objective of the thesis is to design a new detection method of terrain skeleton lines from airborne laser scanning data. The theoretical part provides a brief introduction to airborne laser scanning issue. There are presented major principles of the technology and procedures applied to create digital terrain model from laser data. There is also described an application of airborne laser scanning in the area of the Czech Republic in detail and follows an exact specification of key terms of the thesis. From the geomorphology, topography and geoinformatics point of view there are defined especially terms like terrain skeleton lines, breakline, valley and ridge. Literary research consists of the summary of already published method of breakline detection. There are algorithms focused on data processing in form of original point cloud as well as algorithms focused on processing data in the raster form. Primary goal of the theoretical part is to express major principles of already published method of detection. The practical part firstly introduces data that are used further in the thesis. The objective of the thesis is a description of a new method of detection of terrain skeleton lines. The method processes laser data converted into raster form and it is based on the analysis of transverse elevation profile..