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3D simulations requested in various applications had led to the development of fast and accurate terrain topography measurement techniques. In this paper, we are presenting a novel framework dedicated to the semiautomatic processing of scanned maps, extracting the contour lines vectors and building a digital elevation model on their basis, fulfilled by a number of stages discussed in detail throughout the work. Despite the good results obtained on a large amount of scanned maps, a completely automatic map processing technique is unrealistic and remains an open problem.
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Ghircoias, T., Brad, R. (2010). A New Framework for the Extraction of Contour Lines in Scanned Topographic Maps. In: Essaaidi, M., Malgeri, M., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing IV. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15211-5_6
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