Towards automatic modeling of buildings in informal settlements from aerial photographs using deformable active contour models (snakes)
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description: This dissertation presents a novel system for semi-automatic modeling of buildings in informal settlement areas from aerial photographs. The building extraction strategy is developed and implememed with the aim of generatinga a desk top Informal Settlement Geographic lnformation System (ISGIS) using felf developed and available PC-based GIS tools to serve novice users informal settlement areas.
abstract: This dissertation presents a novel system for semi-automatic modeling of buildings in informal settlement areas from aerial photographs. The building extraction strategy is developed and implememed with the aim of generatinga a desk top Informal Settlement Geographic lnformation System (ISGIS) using felf developed and available PC-based GIS tools to serve novice users informal settlement areas.
author: Martine, Hagai Mbakize
language: eng
date published: 2001
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:23:42Z
provider: University of Cape Town
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Division of Geomatics

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4983