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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-W5-583-2015</article-id>
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<article-title>AUTOMATIC ROAD EXTRACTION BASED ON INTEGRATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION LIDAR AND AERIAL IMAGERY</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rahimi</surname>
<given-names>S.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Arefi</surname>
<given-names>H.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bahmanyar</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Remote Sensing Technology (IMF), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>11</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XL-1/W5</volume>
<fpage>583</fpage>
<lpage>587</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2015 S. Rahimi et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
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<p>In recent years, the rapid increase in the demand for road information together with the availability of large volumes of high resolution
Earth Observation (EO) images, have drawn remarkable interest to the use of EO images for road extraction. Among the proposed
methods, the unsupervised fully-automatic ones are more efficient since they do not require human effort. Considering the proposed
methods, the focus is usually to improve the road network detection, while the roads’ precise delineation has been less attended to.
In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised fully-automatic road extraction method, based on the integration of the high resolution
LiDAR and aerial images of a scene using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). This method discriminates the existing roads in
a scene; and then precisely delineates them. Hough transform is then applied to the integrated information to extract straight lines;
which are further used to segment the scene and discriminate the existing roads. The roads’ edges are then precisely localized using
a projection-based technique, and the round corners are further refined. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method
extracts and delineates the roads with a high accuracy.</p>
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