A natural-rule-based-connection (NRBC) method for river network extraction from high-resolution imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 14055-14078

  Zeng, Chuiqing ^a   Bird, Stephen ^b   Luce, James J ^c   Wang, Jinfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Fluvial Systems Research Inc   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Center line; Feature detection; River; Segment connection; Water body

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER SUPPLY;

CENTER LINE; CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; DETECTION METHODS; FEATURE DETECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; SEGMENT CONNECTION; WATERBODIES;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84945971391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71014055     Document Type: Article

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