Extracting composite cartographic area feature in low-quality maps

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-79

  Leyk, Stefan ^a   Boesch, Ruedi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cartographic pattern recognition; Composite elements; Feature extraction; Historical maps; Land cover change

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; MAPPING; MAPS;

20TH CENTURIES; AREA FEATURES; AUTOMATED EXTRACTIONS; AUTOMATED PROCESSING; BOUNDARY REGIONS; CARTOGRAPHIC PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPOSITE ELEMENTS; CONNECTED COMPONENTS; EXTRACTION METHODS; FOREST AREAS; GEOMETRIC ATTRIBUTES; GRAPHIC ELEMENTS; HIGH ROBUSTNESS; HISTORICAL MAPS; LAND COVER CHANGE; LOW QUALITIES; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; NEW APPROACHES; SHAPE DESCRIPTIONS; SIEGFRIED; SPATIAL EXPANSIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

CARTOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; LAND COVER; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 60849124517     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304009787340115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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