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First, the transmission tower point cloud was rapidly located and extracted from the 3D point cloud obtained by UAV-LiDAR line patrol. A robust histogram local extremum extraction method with additional constraints was proposed to achieve adaptive segmentation of the tower head and tower body point cloud. Second, an accurate and efficient extraction and simplification strategy of the contour of the feature plane point cloud was proposed. The central axis of the tower was constrained by the contour of the feature plane through the four-prism structure to calculate the tilt angle of the tower and evaluate the state of the tower. Finally, the point cloud of tower head from UAV-based LiDAR was accurately matched with the designed tower head model from database, and a tower head state evaluation model based on matching offset parameters was proposed to evaluate tower head tilt state. The experimental results of simulation and measured data showed that the calculation accuracy of the tilt parameters of transmission tower body was better than 0.5 degrees, that the proposed method can effectively evaluate the risk of tower head with complex structure, and improve the rapid and mass intelligent perception level of the risk state of the transmission line tower, which has a wide prospects for application.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14020408","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]],"date-time":"2022-01-17T20:49:21Z","timestamp":1642452561000},"page":"408","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["A Transmission Tower Tilt State Assessment Approach Based on Dense Point Cloud from UAV-Based LiDAR"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Zhumao","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Research Institute, Taiyuan 030001, China"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, Nanjing 211106, China"}]},{"given":"Qiuheng","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0866-6678","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qingwu","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Shaohua","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"905","DOI":"10.1109\/TPWRS.2004.825888","article-title":"Analysis of Electric Grid Security Under Terrorist Threat","volume":"19","author":"Salmeron","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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