Morphological Models for the Collapse of Area Features in Digital Map Generalization Export

@article{citeulike:3844641, abstract = { ” Collapse” is an essential operation for the manipulation of area features in digital data generalization. This operation can be categorized into two types: complete collapse and partial collapse. The former is composed of another two types: area-to-point and area-to-line collapse. In this paper, a set of algebraic models built upon the operators in mathematical morphology is described for the area-to-line collapse and partial collapse operations. For the area-to-line collapse operation, a modified skeleton algorithm is presented. For the partial collapse operation, a procedure is designed which consists of a set of operations, i.e., the skeletonization, separation of areal and linear parts, simplification of areas and an overlay operation. These models are tested using real map data sets.}, author = {Su, Bo and Li, Zhilin and Lodwick, Graham}, citeulike-article-id = {3844641}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=594720.594770}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009757422454}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/p8841t7u26871320}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1023/A:1009757422454}, journal = {GeoInformatica}, keywords = {algorithm, collapsing, generalisation, skeleton}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {359--382}, posted-at = {2009-01-03 14:16:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Morphological Models for the Collapse of Area Features in Digital Map Generalization}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009757422454}, volume = {2}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3844641 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3844641 N2 - “Collapse” is an essential operation for the manipulation of area features in digital data generalization. This operation can be categorized into two types: complete collapse and partial collapse. The former is composed of another two types: area-to-point and area-to-line collapse. In this paper, a set of algebraic models built upon the operators in mathematical morphology is described for the area-to-line collapse and partial collapse operations. For the area-to-line collapse operation, a modified skeleton algorithm is presented. For the partial collapse operation, a procedure is designed which consists of a set of operations, i.e., the skeletonization, separation of areal and linear parts, simplification of areas and an overlay operation. These models are tested using real map data sets. IS - 4 JF - GeoInformatica EP - 382 TI - Morphological Models for the Collapse of Area Features in Digital Map Generalization VL - 2 SP - 359 KW - algorithm KW - collapsing KW - generalisation KW - skeleton AU - Su, Bo AU - Li, Zhilin AU - Lodwick, Graham PY - 1998/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009757422454 ER -