Title
Utilizing Extended Geocodes For Handling Massive Three-Dimensional Point Cloud Data
Abstract
Point clouds have become a primitive and fundamental material for manifold spatial representations. It can precisely render real-world environments as high-density points which include three-dimensional (3D) coordinates (x, y & z) and other features (color, intensity, and so on). Accordingly, various applications, including robot navigation and self-driving, make use of point clouds not only to detect near objects but to comprehend overall geospatial surroundings. However, it is challenging to exploit the point clouds in terms of spatial query processing in traditional database systems because of its enormous volume and nonstructural formats. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for the manipulation of 3D point cloud based on a Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS). As DGGS represents the Earth as hierarchical sequences of equal area/volume tessellations, it provides an accurate partitioning to integrate and analyze big geospatial data, unlike a base64 geohash representation. This study extends our previous DGGS-based encoding/decoding work to process 3D range queries with more than 64 bits for precise 3D coordinates of point clouds. In particular, we apply PH-tree as a multi-resolution tessellation storage and indexing structure for 3D bounding box queries. The experimental results show that our query processing significantly outperforms the baseline with a linear quadtree. Also, we present the encoding/decoding efficiency of converting large Morton codes from geographic coordinates by using the combination of bit interleaving and lookup tables.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s11280-020-00783-1
WORLD WIDE WEB-INTERNET AND WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Big data management, 3D point cloud, Spatial range query, Discrete Global Grid System, Geocode
Journal
24
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1386-145X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taehoon Kim100.34
Jun Lee23313.67
Kyoung-Sook Kim32414.07
Akiyoshi Matono400.34
Ki-Joune Li533839.82