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Building on the methods of progressive generation of triangulation irregular network (TIN) model reported in the literature, we proposed an integrated approach where echo detection, terrain identification, and TIN generation were carried out iteratively. The proposed method was tested on a dataset collected by a Riegl LMS Q-560 scanner over a study area near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada (46\u00b033\u203256\u2032\u2032N, 83\u00b025\u203218\u2032\u2032W). The results demonstrated that more terrain points under shrubs could be identified, and the generated DTMs exhibited more details in the terrain than those obtained using the progressive TIN method. In addition, 1275 points across this study area were surveyed on the ground and used to validate the proposed approach. The estimated elevations were shown to have a strong linear relationship with the measured ones, with R2 values above 0.98, and the RMSEs (Root Mean Squared Errors) between them were less than 0.15 m even for areas with hilly terrains underneath vegetation canopies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9080871","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,22]],"date-time":"2017-08-22T15:08:25Z","timestamp":1503414505000},"page":"871","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["An Integrated Approach to Generating Accurate DTM from Airborne Full-Waveform LiDAR Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Baoxin","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada"}]},{"given":"Damir","family":"Gumerov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada"}]},{"given":"Jianguo","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada"}]},{"given":"and Wen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"739","DOI":"10.1177\/0309133311409086","article-title":"Techniques for quantifying the accuracy of gridded elevation models and for mapping uncertainty in digital terrain analysis","volume":"35","author":"Gunnell","year":"2011","journal-title":"Prog. 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