Runway detection in high resolution remote sensing data

Jackson, Philip T.G.; Nelson, Carl J.; Schiefeley, Jens; Obara, Boguslaw

doi:10.1109/ispa.2015.7306053

Runway detection in high resolution remote sensing data

Jackson, Philip T.G.; Nelson, Carl J.; Schiefeley, Jens; Obara, Boguslaw

Authors

Philip T.G. Jackson

Carl J. Nelson

Jens Schiefeley

Boguslaw Obara

Abstract

Runways are vital descriptive features of airports and knowledge of their location is important to many aviation and military applications. With the recent wide availability of remote sensing data, there is demand for an automatic process of extracting runway geometry from satellite imagery. In particular, Very High Resolution (VHR) data makes it feasible to extract a runway's area precisely. In this paper we establish a novel method for accurate and precise extraction of geometric polygons for an arbitrary number of runways in VHR remote sensing imagery. Validated results are demonstrated for a dataset of twelve images of six different airports, at 61 cm resolution from the QuickBird II satellite.

Citation

Jackson, P. T., Nelson, C. J., Schiefeley, J., & Obara, B. (2015). Runway detection in high resolution remote sensing data. In ISPA 2015 : 9th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 7-9 September 2015, Zagreb, Croatia ; proceedings (170-175). https://doi.org/10.1109/ispa.2015.7306053

Conference Name	9th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
Conference Location	Zagreb, Croatia
Start Date	Sep 7, 2015
End Date	Sep 9, 2015
Publication Date	Sep 9, 2015
Deposit Date	Oct 12, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Oct 28, 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	170-175
Book Title	ISPA 2015 : 9th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 7-9 September 2015, Zagreb, Croatia ; proceedings.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/ispa.2015.7306053
Additional Information	Conference date: 7-9 September 2015.

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