Road extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images is a challenging but hot
research topic in the past decades. A large number of methods are invented to deal with this …

As a significant role for traffic management, city planning, road monitoring, GPS navigation
and map updating, the technology of road extraction from a remote sensing (RS) image has …

We present a novel image operator that seeks to find the value of stroke width for each
image pixel, and demonstrate its use on the task of text detection in natural images. The …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a rapid, low-cost and flexible
acquisition system that appears feasible for application in cadastral mapping: high …

Roads are important mode of transportation, which are very convenient for people's daily
work and life. However, it is challenging to accuratly extract road information from a high …

This paper surveys the state of the art on automatic road extraction for GIS update from
aerial and satellite imagery. It presents a bibliography of nearly 250 references related to …

The process of road extraction from high-resolution satellite images is complex, and most
researchers have shown results on a few selected set of images. Based on the satellite data …

Mountain roads are a source of important basic geographic data used in various fields. The
automatic extraction of road images through high-resolution remote sensing imagery using …

With the advent of Earth Observation satellite sensors producing images in the visible
wavelengths with resolutions better than 5 m, it is now possible to recognize man-made …

Vast areas of the world consist of hard rocks (basement complexes), where water is
restricted to secondary permeability, and thus to the fractures and the weathered zones. As …