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The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based point cloud data derived from photogrammetry methods contains the structural information of crops which could be used to retrieve crop height. However, removing noise and outliers from the UAV-based crop point cloud data for height extraction is challenging. The objective of this paper is to develop an alternative method for canopy height determination from UAV-based 3D point cloud datasets using a statistical analysis method and a moving cuboid filter to remove outliers. In this method, first, the point cloud data is divided into many 3D columns. Secondly, a moving cuboid filter is applied in each column and moved downward to eliminate noise points. The threshold of point numbers in the filter is calculated based on the distribution of points in the column. After applying the moving cuboid filter, the crop height is calculated from the highest and lowest points in each 3D column. The proposed method achieved high accuracy for height extraction with low Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 6.37 cm and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 5.07 cm. The canopy height monitoring window for winter wheat using this method starts from the beginning of the stem extension stage to the end of the heading stage (BBCH 31 to 65). Since the height of wheat has limited change after the heading stage, this method could be used to retrieve the crop height of winter wheat. In addition, this method only requires one operation of UAV in the field. It could be an effective method that can be widely used to help end-user to monitor their crops and support real-time decision making for farm management.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11101239","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,24]],"date-time":"2019-05-24T11:20:46Z","timestamp":1558696846000},"page":"1239","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":45,"title":["Winter Wheat Canopy Height Extraction from UAV-Based Point Cloud Data with a Moving Cuboid Filter"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5229-1781","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang","family":"Song","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, the University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8404-0530","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinfei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, the University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"35","article-title":"Agricultural UAVs in the U.S.: Potential, policy, and hype","volume":"2","author":"Freeman","year":"2015","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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