Evaluation method of solar energy utilization potential in urban high-density areas based on low-altitude photogrammetry

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10755098-B2
Application number	US-201816205464-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2018
Priority date	Dec 26, 2017
Publication date	Aug 25, 2020
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020

Abstract

The present invention proposes an evaluation method of solar energy utilization potential in urban high-density areas based on low-altitude photogrammetry, comprising the following steps: low-altitude data acquisition using drones, acquisition of three-dimensional point cloud data, screening of building subject points, selection of seed region, region growth and point cloud patch segmentation, three-dimensional reconstruction, building geometry model, solar radiation simulation and solar energy utilization potential assessment steps. The invention utilizes low-altitude photogrammetry to obtain point cloud data in a high-density area of the city, and performs semantic division and three-dimensional reconstruction on the point cloud data through a parameterization tool to obtain a singular geometric model. Therefore, the solar radiation and dynamic change obtained from the roof and facade of the building are simulated and analyzed in the same platform.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An evaluation method of solar energy utilization potential in urban high-density areas based on low-altitude photogrammetry, comprising the following steps:
step 1, obtaining low-altitude remote sensing image data of urban high-density area, and generating three-dimensional point cloud data through image processing;
step 2, based on information carried by the three-dimensional point cloud data, distinguishing point cloud of building subject from that of non-building subject, and obtaining filtered singular three-dimensional point cloud data;
step 3, through point cloud patch segmentation method based on curvature and normal vector, and the subsequent column model reconstruction, reconstructing singular 3D point cloud data in three dimensions to obtain a singular urban high-density area building geometry model;
step 4, through computer simulation of singular geometric model of buildings in the urban high-density area, obtaining distribution information of solar radiation on a surface of a building; performing data analysis on distribution information of solar radiation on the surface of the building, and evaluating the potential of solar energy utilization in the urban high-density area through results of data analysis;
wherein the low-altitude remote sensing image data are high-resolution image data obtained by consumption-grade multi-rotor drone and tilt photography method of a single camera;
wherein the step 2 comprises: in a parametric modeling tool, extracting color parameters in the point cloud model by Volvox plug-in, and selecting desired points and the points to be filtered by setting the RGB range.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
(1) decomposing the point cloud model P into set P XYZ containing only coordinate information and set P RGB containing only color information;
(2) decomposing P RGB into three independent collections P R , P G , P B , which represent values of R, G, and B;
(3) setting respective thresholds of P R , P G , and P B according to color distribution of the three-dimensional point cloud data and the color of object to be specifically selected;
(4) according to intersection P R∩G∩B of P R , P G and P B , filtering out needed set P s from point cloud model P.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the step 3 comprises: searching neighborhood points by KNN nearest neighbor algorithm, and constructing covariance matrix for neighborhood points; estimating normal vector and curvature by PCA principal component analysis algorithm to construct a seed region; then using a region growth algorithm to extract point cloud patches on each side of the building; constructing a mapping relationship between roof patch P 0 and ground plane grid, and taking an average height of the point cloud as a grid height to obtain a columnar model of the building, and carrying out a plane fitting of a column model to obtain the singular geometric model of the building in the urban high-density area.

Assignees

• Harbin Inst Technology

Inventors

• Sun Cheng
• Han Yunsong
• Pan Yongjie
• Dong Qi
• Qu Dagang
• Jia Yongheng
• Liu Lei

Classifications

• G01C11/04 Primary

  Interpretation of pictures · CPC title

• G06V20/64

  Three-dimensional [3D] objects · CPC title

• G06V20/176

  Urban or other man-made structures · CPC title

• G06F18/2135

  based on approximation criteria, e.g. principal component analysis · CPC title

• G06V10/56

  relating to colour · CPC title