Computer-Based Aerial Image Understanding: A Review and Assessment of its Application to Planimetric Information Extraction from Very High Resolution Satellite Images

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-47

  Guindon, B ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

COMPUTER BASED AERIAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM); PLANIMETRIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION; SATELLITE IMAGING;

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING;

EID: 0031095457     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.1997.10874676     Document Type: Article

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