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Methodology and Evaluation of Terrain Fusion Based on Different Resolution 2D Images

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Publisher : 2014 7th International Conference on u- and e- Service, Science and Technology

Url : https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7024678

Keywords : artificial satellites,data structures,geographic information systems,geophysical image processing,image fusion,image matching,image representation,image resolution,terrain mapping,DEM,terrain fusion,contour map,height map,aerial difference,SSIM

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Engineering

Department : Computer Science

Year : 2014

Abstract : Currently, digital terrain models (DTMs) are important constituent of any urban navigation system. When modeling the earth's surface in digital form, there occurs voids or gaps in the terrain data. This may result in an erroneous representation of the geographic information system. Terrain fusion is suggested as a solution to fill the voids in the data representation. This paper focuses on this idea and presents a novel terrain fusion methodology and evaluation using satellite imagery (SRTM) and 2D map representation (NDM). We use iso-elevation contour map, a compact feature based representation to evaluate the reference terrain (SRTM) and the fused terrain (SRTM and NDM). We experiment with these criterions of aerial difference, structural similarity and height deviation to estimate the accuracy of fusion methodology. The result shows that the proposed methodology can improve the accuracy in the terrain matching.

Cite this Research Publication : Divya Udayan J, Hyun-A Park, HyungSeok Kim, Jee-In Kim, Keetae Kim, Methodology and Evaluation of Terrain Fusion Based on Different Resolution 2D Images In Proc. IEEE, UNESST’14, pp.11-18 China,2014

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