The effect of morphological smoothening by reconstruction on the extraction of peaks and pits from digital elevation models

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1400-1406

  Sathyamoorthy, Dinesh ^a  

^a Science and Technology Research Institute for Defence STRIDE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

DEM smoothening; Digital elevation models; Kernel; Morphological smoothening by reconstruction; Peaks and pits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DEM SMOOTHENING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; KERNEL; MORPHOLOGICAL SMOOTHENING BY RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 34347262109     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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