Field-based sub-boundary extraction from remote sensing imagery using perceptual grouping

2013-05-01
TÜRKER, MUSTAFA
Kok, Emre Hamit
This study presents an approach for the automatic extraction of dynamic sub-boundaries within existing agricultural fields from remote sensing imagery using perceptual grouping. We define sub-boundaries as boundaries, where a change in crop type takes a place within the fixed geometry of an agricultural field. To perform field-based processing and analysis operations, the field boundary data and satellite imagery are integrated. The edge pixels are detected using the Canny edge detector. The edge pixels are then analyzed to find the connected edge chains and from these chains the line segments are detected using the graph-based vectorization method. The spurious line segments are eliminated through a line simplification process. The perceptual grouping of the line segments is employed for detecting sub-boundaries and constructing sub-fields within the fixed geometry of agricultural fields. Our strategy for perceptual grouping involves the Gestalt laws of proximity, continuation, symmetry and closure. The processing and analysis operations are carried out on field-by-field basis. For each field, the geometries of sub-boundaries are determined through analyzing the line segments that fall within the field and the extracted sub-boundaries are integrated with the fixed geometry of the field.
ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

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Citation Formats
M. TÜRKER and E. H. Kok, “Field-based sub-boundary extraction from remote sensing imagery using perceptual grouping,” ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING, pp. 106–121, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65922.