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The system is based on a hovercraft and equipped with a laser scanner and a POS (position and orientation system). The filtering method firstly segments the point cloud into different segments by combining the geometric and intensity information, then fitting the ground surface by cloth simulation method, and finally synthetically extracts the ground points with three constraints. These constraints are the distance of the point to the fitting surface, the normal difference between the point and the fitting surface, and the proportion of the possible ground points in the total points of each segment. The effectiveness of the measurement system and the development of the post-processing results were verified on the basis of field measurements, in which a total filtering error of 0.3% and the elevation accuracy of 6.4 cm were obtained. 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