Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the full abstract)
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A Comprehensive Study of the Rational Function Model for Photogrammetric
Processing
C. Vincent Tao and Yong Hu
The rational function model (RFM) has gained considerable interest recently mainly due to the fact that Space Imaging Inc. (Thornton, Colorado) has adopted the RFM1 as an alternative sensor model for image exploitation.
1359
Texture-Integrated Classification of Urban Treed Areas in High-Resolution
Color- Infrared Imagery
Yun Zhang
Traditional multispectral classification methods have not provided satisfying results for treed area extraction from high-resolution digital imagery because trees are characterized not only by their spectral but also by their textural properties.
1367 Spectral Separability among Six Southern Tree Species
Jan A.N. van Aardt and Randolph H. Wynne
Spectroradiometer data (350 to 2500 nm) were acquired in late summer 1999 over various forest sites in Appomattox Buckingham State Forest, Virginia, to assess the spectral differentiability among six major forestry tree species: loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana), shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata), scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea), white oak (Quercus alba), and yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera).
1377 Land-Cover Anomaly Detection along Pipeline Rights-of-Way
R.P. Gauthier, M. Maloley, and K.B. Fung
The detection of small-scale anomalies along a linear corridor is of importance because these anomalies may be indicative of larger failures or impending failures of the corridor infrastructure which acquire a level of importance depending on the nature of the failure and the context of the adjacent landscape.
1391 Differential Snakes for Change Detection in Road Segments
Peggy Agouris, Anthony Stefanidis, and Sotirios Gyftakis
The automation of object extraction from digital imagery has been a key research issue in digital photogrammetry and computer vision. In the spatiotemporal context of modern GIS, with constantly changing environments and periodic database revisions, change detection is becoming increasingly important.
1401 Database-Guided Automatic Inspection of Vertically Structured
Transportation Objects from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences
C. Vincent Tao
The land vehicle-based mobile mapping technology offers an efficient and cost-effective way for collecting georeferenced images along road corridors. These images can be used for many transportation related applications ranging from transportation object inspection to 3D generation.