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OBJECT-BASED EVALUATION OF LIDAR AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA FOR AUTOMATIC CHANGE DETECTION IN GIS DATABASES V. Walter Institute for Photogrammetry, Stuttgart University, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany Volker.Walter@ifp.uni-stuttgart.de KEY WORDS: GIS, Change Detection, Fusion, Classification, LIDAR, Multispectral ABSTRACT: The automatic interpretation of aerial and satellite images is one of the main important research topics in photogrammetry and image analysis. The aim of the interpretation is the recognition or verification of objects in images. The quality of the interpretation results depends among other factors on the information content of the input data. The more information in the input data the easier is the interpretation process. In this paper an approach is described that increases the quality of the interpretation process by using existing GIS data as prior information on the one hand and by combining multispectral and LIDAR data on the other hand. The approach is used for automatic change detection and is based on the evaluation of automatically derived training data sets from existing GIS data. For that reason no data dependent tuning factors have to be defined and no human interaction is necessary. 1. INTRODUCTION classification could be improved significantly by the combined use of multispectral and LIDAR data Walter 1999 . GIS databases are very dynamic and can change very rapidly Furthermore it was shown that GIS-based classification can be over the time. Automatic interpretation procedures are needed successfully used to verify different object classes in the scale of in order to provide up-to-date databases. One of the standard 1:25.000 Walter 2004 . approaches for the automatic interpretation of aerial or satellite images are pixel-based classification algorithms. With that kind Object-based image analysis is also used for example in Benz of algorithm