Semi-automated road detection from high resolution satellite images by directional morphological enhancement and segmentation techniques

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1538-1544

  Chaudhuri, D ^a   Kushwaha, N K ^a   Samal, A ^b  

^a Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory India   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancement; morphology; remote sensing; resolution; road detection; segmentation

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; MAP OBJECTS; QUICKBIRD; ROAD DETECTION; ROAD SEGMENTS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SEMI-AUTOMATICS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REMOTE SENSING; ROADS AND STREETS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; IKONOS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; ROAD; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84869501307     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2199085     Document Type: Article

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