A New Skeleton Feature Extraction Method for Terrain Model Using Profile Recognition and Morphological Simplification

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="523729.fig.0019a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2013/523729/figures/523729.fig.0019a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Original Terrain   </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="523729.fig.0019b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2013/523729/figures/523729.fig.0019b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Skeleton feature results</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="523729.fig.0019c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2013/523729/figures/523729.fig.0019c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>Longest branch</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Screenshots extracted by MPPA (left below of ex200B3).</table>

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Figure 19: A New Skeleton Feature Extraction Method for Terrain Model Using Profile Recognition and Morphological Simplification 