Overview of automatic generation of mosaicking seamlines for remote sensing images
ZHOU Qinghua1, PAN Jun2, LI Deren2
1. School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Abstract：Automatic generation is a critical procedure in remote sensing image mosaicking and a key technique for producing digital orthophoto map (DOM). The seamline is closely related to the object integrity and color consistency in the image,so the automatic generation of seamline determines directly the quality and efficiency of mosaic processing, which thus becomes a hot research topic both in China and abroad. In this paper,the authors described the relative principle of the seamline generation and made a summary of four methods for automatic generation of seamline,which included methods based on overlap area image difference,identical points,auxiliary data and morphology. The prospect of further optimizing the seamline is forecasted on the basis of comparing and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.
周清华, 潘俊, 李德仁. 遥感图像镶嵌接缝线自动生成方法综述[J]. 国土资源遥感, 2013, 25(2): 1-7.
ZHOU Qinghua, PAN Jun, LI Deren. Overview of automatic generation of mosaicking seamlines for remote sensing images. REMOTE SENSING FOR LAND & RESOURCES, 2013, 25(2): 1-7.
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