DocumentCode
2140703
Title
A wavelet transform based method for road extraction from high-resolution remotely sensed data
Author
Chen, Tieling ; Wang, Jinfei ; Zhang, Kaizhong
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada
Volume
6
fYear
2002
fDate
2002
Firstpage
3369
Abstract
A wavelet transform based method for road extraction is introduced. It characterizes the edges of roads in high-resolution remotely sensed images through their multi-scale wavelet transforms. Road networks are extracted efficiently from the images.
Keywords
edge detection; feature extraction; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; terrain mapping; wavelet transforms; edge detection; feature extraction; geophysical measurement technique; high resolution image; image processing; land surface; linear feature; multi-scale; multiscale method; remote sensing; road; road network; terrain mapping; wavelet transform; Computer science; Data mining; Geography; Image edge detection; Image processing; Remote sensing; Roads; Smoothing methods; Spatial resolution; Wavelet transforms;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7536-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1027185
Filename
1027185
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