A divide-and-conquer approach to contour extraction and invariant feature analysis

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5813-5835

  Gavrilova, Marina ^a   Apu, Russel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; EDGE DETECTION; OBJECT DETECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

DISCRETE SEQUENCES; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; OBJECT FEATURE ANALYSIS; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL QUANTIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DIGITAL MAP; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649839489     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.512306     Document Type: Article

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