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Road Extraction in High Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based on Improved K-means Algorithm

  

  1. (1. Key Laboratory of Space Utilization, Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China; 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)
  • Received:2017-03-20 Online:2017-11-21 Published:2017-11-21

Abstract: Aiming at the problem of feature extraction in road extraction in high resolution remote sensing images, a road extraction method based on improved K-means algorithm was proposed. Firstly, pretreatment was executed according to the specific scene of the target image. Secondly, improved K-means algorithm was introduced to implement spectral-textural classification to segment the image into two categories: road and nonroad groups. Thirdly, the geometric features of road were used to extract reliable road segments. Finally, mathematical morphology was used to complete the road information and get the final result. The experimental results show that our method can realize the road extraction in complex scene and has satisfactory effect.

Key words: high resolution remote sensing images, road extraction, improved K-means algorithm, feature fusion, mathematical morphology

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