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Semantic Map Generation from Satellite Images for Humanitarian Scenarios Applications

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This paper demonstrates how knowledge driven methods and the associated data analysis algorithms are changing the paradigms of user-data interactions, providing an easier and wider access to the Earth Observation data. Some information theory based algorithms are proposed for anomaly and change detection on SPOT images, relative to a widespread humanitarian crisis scenario: floods. The outcomes of these algorithms define an informational representation of the image, revealing the spatial distribution of a particular theme. Using image analysis and interpretation, the multitude of features from a scene are classified into meaningful classes to create sematic maps.

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Vaduva, C., Faur, D., Popescu, A., Gavat, I., Datcu, M. (2008). Semantic Map Generation from Satellite Images for Humanitarian Scenarios Applications. In: Blanc-Talon, J., Bourennane, S., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (eds) Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems. ACIVS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88458-3_73

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