## NAME

v.outlier

## DESCRIPTION

v.outlier removes outliers in a 3D point cloud. By default, the outlier identification is done by a bicubic spline interpolation of the observation with a high regularization parameter and a low resolution in south-north and east-west directions. Those points that differ in an absolute value more than the given threshold from a fixed value, reckoned from its surroundings by the interpolation, are considered as an outlier, and hence are removed. There is a flag to create a vector that can be visualizated by qgis. That means that topology is build and the z coordinate is considered as a category.

## EXAMPLES

### Basic outlier removal

    v.outlier input=vector_map output=vector_output outlier=vector_outlier thres_O=25

In this case, a basic outlier removal is done with a threshold of 25 m.

### Basic outlier removal

    v.outlier -q input=vector_map output=vector_output outlier=vector_outlier qgis=vector_qgis

Now, the outlier removal uses the default threshold and there is also an output vector available for visualizaton in QGIS (http://www.qgis.org).

## NOTES

This module is designed to work with LIDAR data, so not topology is built but in the QGIS output.

## SEE ALSO

v.surf.bspline

## AUTHORS

Original version of the program in GRASS 5.4:
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Ulisse Longoni and Mirko Reguzzoni
Updates for GRASS 6:
Roberto Antolin

Last changed: $Date: 2011-09-27 11:02:59 +0200 (Tue, 27 Sep 2011) $

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