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The clearance anomaly detection measures the distance between the power lines and the surrounding non-power-facility objects in the corridor such as trees, and buildings, to judge whether the clearance is within the safe range. To find the clearance hazards efficiently and flexibly, this study thus proposed an automatic clearance anomaly detection method utilizing LiDAR point clouds collected by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Firstly, the terrain points were filtered out using two-step adaptive terrain filter and the pylons were detected in the non-terrain points following a feature map method. After dividing the ROW point clouds into spans based on the pylon detection results, the power line point clouds were extracted according to their geometric distribution in local span point clouds slices, and were further segmented into clusters by applying conditional Euclidean clustering with linear feature constraints. Secondly, the power line point clouds segments were iteratively fitted with 3D catenary curve model that is represented by a horizontal line and a vertical catenary curve defined by a hyperbolic cosine function, resulting in a continuous mathematical model of the discretely sampled points of the power line. Finally, a piecewise clearance calculation method which converts the point-to-catenary curve distance measurements to minimal distance calculation based on differential geometry was used to calculate the distance between the power line and the non-power-facility objects in the ROW. The clearance measurements were compared with the standard safe threshold to find the clearance anomalies in the ROWs. Multiple LiDAR point clouds datasets collected by a large-scale UAV power line inspection system were used to validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed method. The detected results were validated through qualitatively visual inspection, quantitatively manual measurements in raw point clouds and on-site field survey. 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