Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (10): 1669-1678.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2023.20220579

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A multi-beam outlier automatic filtering algorithm combining uncertainty and density clustering method

WANG Junsen1, JIN Shaohua1, BIAN Gang1, CUI Yang1, LONG Zhenyu1,2   

  1. 1. Department of Military Oceanography and Hydrography, Dalian Naval Academy, Dalian 116018, China;
    2. Troops 91937, Zhoushan 316002, China
  • Received:2022-10-18 Revised:2023-04-20 Published:2023-10-31
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41876103)

Abstract: Based on the reproduction of CUBE filtering algorithm, this paper proposes a multibeam automatic outlier filtering algorithm combining uncertainty and density clustering method in reference of CUBE's assimilation model. In this paper, we use the DBSCAN to cluster the bathymetry values, use Kalman filter to estimate bathymetry values of the node, and select the bathymetry hypothesis with minimum uncertainty as true bathymetry values of the node. The measured data and simulation results show that the CUBE filtering algorithm cannot completely eliminate the continuous outliers, while the algorithm in this paper can clean up the continuous outliers better. Our algorithm is clear, simple and reliable, and can clean up many outliers in the case of poor data quality, which possesses practical engineering application value.

Key words: multi-beam bathymetry, outlier filter, CUBE algorithm, DBSCAN algorithm, Kalman filter

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