Morphological processing of severely occluded digital elevation images to extract and connect stream channels

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cho, Hyun Chong ^a   Clint Slatton, K ^a,b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity number; Digital elevation models; Lidar; Morphology; Stream delineation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SWATH MAPPING; CONNECTIVITY NUMBER; DIGITAL ELEVATION IMAGES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; ERROR MEASURES; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LIDAR; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; PIXEL VALUES; SIMULATED TERRAIN; STREAM CHANNELS; STREAM DELINEATION; STREAM NETWORKS; STREAM SEGMENTS; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

COPYING; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PIXELS; RIVERS; SURVEYING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TRACKING RADAR;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

EID: 48149089836     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4379137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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