An implementation of automatic contour line extraction from scanned digital topographic maps

Applied and Computational Mathematics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-127

  Samet, R ^a   Askerbeyli, Askerzade I N ^a   Varol, C ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Color image segmentation; Contour line; Digital topographic map; Filtering; Morphological operation; Reconnection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956555937     PISSN: 16833511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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