Semi-automatic road tracking by template matching and distance transformation in Urban areas

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 8331-8347

  Zhang, Jixian ^a   Lin, Xiangguo ^a,b   Liu, Zhengjun ^a   Shen, Jing ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROAD AND STREET MARKINGS; ROADS AND STREETS;

DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION; REFERENCE TEMPLATES; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; ROAD TRACKING METHOD; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS; TEMPLATE MATCHING METHOD; URBAN ROAD NETWORKS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ROAD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THRESHOLD; TRACKING; TRANSFORMATION; URBAN AREA;

EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

EID: 82055162791     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.540587     Document Type: Article

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