Towards automatic modeling of buildings in informal settlements from aerial photographs using deformable active contour models (snakes)

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.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Division of Geomatics

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Martine, Hagai Mbakize

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Rüther, Heinz
• Mtalo, EG

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

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

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4983