Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12094705
Keywords
high-resolution image; road extraction; semi-automatic; morphology; vector processing
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC: U2033216]
- Foundation of Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Application of CETC [SXX19629X060]
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This paper proposes a semi-automatic method for road network extraction from high-resolution remote-sensing images. The method extracts roads one by one and generates road networks based on the width of each road and the spatial relationships among them. The experiments show that this method has high extraction accuracy.
Road network extraction plays a critical role in data updating, urban development, and decision support. To improve the efficiency of labeling road datasets and addressing the problems of traditional methods of manually extracting road networks from high-resolution images, such as their slow speed and heavy workload, this paper proposes a semi-automatic method of road network extraction from high-resolution remote-sensing images. The proposed method needs only a few points to extract a single road in the image. After the roads are extracted one by one, the road network is generated according to the width of each road and the spatial relationships among the roads. For this purpose, we use regional growth, morphology, vector tracking, vector simplification, endpoint modification, road connections, and intersection connections to generate road networks. Experiments on four images with different terrains and different resolutions show that this method has high extraction accuracy under different image conditions. The comparisons with the semi-automatic GVF-snake method based on regional growth also showed its advantages and potentiality. The proposed method is a novel form of semi-automatic road network extraction, and it significantly increases the efficiency of road network extraction.
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