Road Extraction Methods in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: A Comprehensive Review

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 problem. This article provides a comprehensive review of these existing approaches. We classified the methods into heuristi...

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Published in:	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Main Authors:	Renbao Lian, Weixing Wang, Nadir Mustafa, Liqin Huang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2020-01-01
Subjects:	Data-driven heuristic high resolution remote sensing image road extraction
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9195124/

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