Semiautomatic airport runway extraction using a line-finder-aided level set evolution

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

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4738-4749

  Li, Zhongbin ^a   Liu, Zhizhao ^a   Shi, Wenzhong ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Google earth images; Line detection; Long straight line finder; Region based level set method; Semiautomatic airport runway extraction

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT RUNWAYS; AUTOMATION; EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; GOOGLE EARTHS; LEVEL SET METHOD; LINE DETECTION; LONG STRAIGHT LINE FINDER; SEMI-AUTOMATIC GENERATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

AIRPORTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRPORT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 85027928261     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2298332     Document Type: Article

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