A new approach to the reconstruction of contour lines extracted from topographic maps

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 642-647

  Samet, Refik ^a   Hancer, Emrah ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cartography; Contour lines; Feature extraction; Gaps and end points; Geometric properties; Geophysical image processing; Reconstruction; Topographic maps

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR LINE; END POINTS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAPPING; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

CONTOUR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84858956991     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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