Contour detection for UAV-based cadastral mapping

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Crommelinck, Sophie ^a   Bennett, Rohan ^a   Gerke, Markus ^b   Yang, Michael Ying ^a   Vosselman, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary localization; Cadastral boundaries; Computer vision; Contour generation; Image segmentation; Land administration; Object detection; Remote sensing; UAV photogrammetry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; OBJECT DETECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

AREA-BASED SEGMENTATION; BOUNDARY DELINEATION; BOUNDARY LOCALIZATION; CONTOUR GENERATION; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD; LAND ADMINISTRATION; LOW-COST SOLUTION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85013633272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9020171     Document Type: Article

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