Automatic extraction of main road centerlines from high resolution satellite imagery using hierarchical grouping

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1049-1056

  Hu, Xiangyun ^a,b   Tao, Vincent ^c  

^a Geosystems Geospatial Imaging LLC   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; MAIN ROAD CENTERLINES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; ROAD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 36649001010     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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