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The profiles are computed by applying polynomials of a different degree, determining which coefficients are estimated using the method in question. For comparison purposes, the profiles are also determined by applying a conventional least squares estimation. The analyses are based on simulated as well as real TLS data. The actual objects have been chosen to contain terrain details (or obstacles), which provide some measurements which are not referred to as terrain surface; here, they are regarded as outliers. The empirical tests prove that the proposed approach is efficient and can provide good terrain profiles even if there are outliers in an observation set. The best results are obtained when the absolute Msplit estimation is applied. One can suggest that this method can be used in a vertical displacement analysis in mining damages or ground disasters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13010031","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,23]],"date-time":"2020-12-23T12:19:51Z","timestamp":1608725991000},"page":"31","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Determination of Terrain Profile from TLS Data by Applying Msplit Estimation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0080-7897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrycja","family":"Wyszkowska","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6331-8345","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert","family":"Duchnowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland"}]},{"given":"Andrzej","family":"Dumalski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2421","DOI":"10.1080\/01431161.2015.1041617","article-title":"Application of the Msplit method for filtering airborne laser scanning data-sets to estimate digital terrain models","volume":"36","author":"Janowski","year":"2015","journal-title":"Int. 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