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Airborne platforms have been improved in the past decade to provide geographic information systems (GISs) with large-scale 3D geographical information. Objectification of such information organized in meshes is a significant challenge for 3D GISs. The ground filtering of 3D meshes is a key step in meeting this challenge, however, its accuracy is highly affected by negative blunders and unbalanced vertex density. This paper proposes a novel method for differentiating ground geometric primitives from realistic 3D meshes based on a cloth simulation filter. Within the method, the fall of a piece of cloth is simulated on a flipped 3D mesh, and the stationary shape of the cloth is considered to be the fitted ground. Utilizing the spatial continuity of meshes, a collision detection based on bounding volume hierarchy is introduced, making the results independent of vertex density. Further, a collision correction based on the …