Automatic data capture for geographic information systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-215

  Chen, Liang Hua ^a,d   Liao, Hong Yuan ^a,b   Wang, Jiing Yuh ^a,c   Fan, Kuo Chin ^a,b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC DATA CAPTURE; CHINESE LAND REGISTER MAPS; MAP INTERPRETATION SYSTEM;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0032635823     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5326.760565     Document Type: Article

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