Map-based road detection in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar images based on curvilinear structure extraction

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2413-2421

  Jeon, Byoung Ki ^a   Jang, Jeong Hun ^a   Hong, Ki Sang ^a,b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE CODING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; CURVILINEAR STRUCTURE EXTRACTION; DIGITAL MAP; ROAD DETECTION; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0034268838     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1287399     Document Type: Article

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