A new model for automatic raster-to-vector conversion

International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 182-190

  Taie, Shereen A ^a   ElDeeb, Hesham E ^b   Atiya, Diyaa M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b ELECTRONICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Automatic vectorization; GIS; SMP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859994071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09754024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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