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Although laser scanning can collect the dense 3D coordinates of the stockpile surface for its quantification, stockpiles of coal have irregular shape, size, height, and base conditions, and may be overlapped with each other, which makes it hard to measure the different stockpiles automatically and accurately. This paper proposes an algorithm to extract and measure the stockpiles from the 3D point cloud data using the multi-scale directional curvature. Firstly, the second-order directional curvature analysis along multiple directions and at multiple scales is proposed to extract the distinctive ridge of crest in the point cloud of stockpiles. Then, starting with the crest points, a competitive growing strategy is proposed to accurately locate the points of slope in the stockpile. Finally, the stockpile\u2019s volume is calculated by reconstructing the complete points of crest and slope with many meshes and triangular prisms through the subsurface fitting and surface reconstruction. Experiments on both the synthetic and real point cloud of stockpiles demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can extract the stockpiles with the average accuracy over 93.5% and measure the volume of stockpiles with the average precision over 93.7%. It is promising for automatically measuring the stockpiles like sand, soybean, etc., and facilitating the scientific storage and transportation management, as well as the maintenance of safety inventory during operation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12060960","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,18]],"date-time":"2020-03-18T08:20:44Z","timestamp":1584519644000},"page":"960","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Automatic Stockpile Extraction and Measurement Using 3D Point Cloud and Multi-Scale Directional Curvature"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Xingyu","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5497-9897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuchun","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3628-3984","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qiulan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Newcombe, R.A., Izadi, S., Hilliges, O., Molyneaux, D., and Fitzgibbon, A.W. 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