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However, transportation embankments are problematic for several environmental modelling applications, and particularly hydrological modelling. Currently, there are no automated techniques for the identification and removal of embankments from LiDAR DEMs. This paper presents a novel algorithm for identifying embankments in LiDAR DEMs. The algorithm utilizes repositioned transportation network cells as seed points in a region-growing operation. The embankment region grows based on derived morphometric parameters, including road surface width, embankment width, embankment height, and absolute slope. The technique was tested on eight LiDAR DEMs representing subsections of four watersheds in southwestern Ontario, Canada, ranging in size from 16 million cells to 134 million cells. The algorithm achieved a recall greater than or equal to 90% for seven of the eight DEMs, while achieving a Pearson\u2019s phi correlation coefficient greater than 80% for five of the eight DEMs. Therefore, the method has moderate to high accuracy for identifying embankments. The processing times associated with applying the technique to the eight study site DEMs ranged from 1.4 s to 20.3 s, which demonstrates the practicality of using the embankment mapping tool in applications with data set sizes commonly encountered in practice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13071308","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,30]],"date-time":"2021-03-30T09:57:04Z","timestamp":1617098224000},"page":"1308","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Automated Mapping of Transportation Embankments in Fine-Resolution LiDAR DEMs"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Nigel","family":"Van Nieuwenhuizen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, Environment &amp; Geomatics, The University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd. 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