Road network extraction and intersection detection from aerial images by tracking road footprints

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4144-4157

  Hu, Jiuxiang ^a   Razdan, Anshuman ^a   Femiani, John C ^a   Cui, Ming ^b   Wonka, Peter ^b  

^a Arizona State University's Polytechnic Campus   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes decision rule; Road extraction; Road footprint; Road tracking; Road tree pruning

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; TRACKING (POSITION);

BAYES DECISION RULES; ROAD EXTRACTION; ROAD FOOTPRINT; ROAD TRACKING; ROAD TREE PRUNING;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 36348958613     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.906107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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