Automatic road network extraction from high resolution satellite imagery using spectral classification methods

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dc.contributor.advisor Engelbrecht, Andries P. en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Hauptfleisch, Andries Carl en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-07T08:25:51Z
dc.date.available 2010-09-10 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-07T08:25:51Z
dc.date.created 2010-09-02 en
dc.date.issued 2010-09-10 en
dc.date.submitted 2010-07-30 en
dc.description Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010. en
dc.description.abstract Road networks play an important role in a number of geospatial applications, such as cartographic, infrastructure planning and traffic routing software. Automatic and semi-automatic road network extraction techniques have significantly increased the extraction rate of road networks. Automated processes still yield some erroneous and incomplete results and costly human intervention is still required to evaluate results and correct errors. With the aim of improving the accuracy of road extraction systems, three objectives are defined in this thesis: Firstly, the study seeks to develop a flexible semi-automated road extraction system, capable of extracting roads from QuickBird satellite imagery. The second objective is to integrate a variety of algorithms within the road network extraction system. The benefits of using each of these algorithms within the proposed road extraction system, is illustrated. Finally, a fully automated system is proposed by incorporating a number of the algorithms investigated throughout the thesis. Copyright en
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dc.description.department Computer Science en
dc.identifier.citation Hauptfleisch, AC 2010, Automatic road network extraction from high resolution satellite imagery using spectral classification methods, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26866 > en
dc.identifier.other C10/513/gm en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07302010-143434/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26866
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject Spectral classification en
dc.subject Edge detection en
dc.subject Remote sensing analysis en
dc.subject Feature extraction en
dc.subject Segmentation en
dc.subject Automated road network extraction en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.title Automatic road network extraction from high resolution satellite imagery using spectral classification methods en
dc.type Dissertation en


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