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• TITLE: Automatic Extraction of Urban Road Centerlines from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using Automatic Thresholding and Morphological Operation Method

  AUTHORS: Abdur Raziq, Aigong Xu, Yu Li

  KEYWORDS: Automatic Thresholding, High-Resolution Imagery, Morphological Operation, Posts Processing, Thinning Algorithm, Urban Road Centerlines Extraction

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Geographic Information System, Vol.8 No.4, August 24, 2016

  ABSTRACT: The commercial high-resolution imaging satellite with 1 m spatial resolution IKONOS is an important data source of information for urban planning and geographical information system (GIS) applications. In this paper, a morphological method is proposed. The proposed method combines the automatic thresholding and morphological operation techniques to extract the road centerline of the urban environment. This method intends to solve urban road centerline problems, vehicle, vegetation, building etc. Based on this morphological method, an object extractor is designed to extract road networks from highly remote sensing images. Some filters are applied in this experiment such as line reconstruction and region filling techniques to connect the disconnected road segments and remove the small redundant. Finally, the thinning algorithm is used to extract the road centerline. Experiments have been conducted on a high-resolution IKONOS and QuickBird images showing the efficiency of the proposed method.