Contour line and geographic feature extraction from USGS color topographical paper maps

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 18-31

  Khotanzad, Alireza ^a   Zink, Edmund ^a  

^a Southern Methodist University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliasing and false colors; Color map analysis; Map segmentation; Topographic map contour line extraction; USGS map analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPS; SCANNING;

HISTOGRAMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0037247483     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1159943     Document Type: Article

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