Automatic vectorization of historical maps: A benchmark. [PDF]
PLoS ONEShape vectorization is a key stage of the digitization of large-scale historical maps, especially city maps that exhibit complex and valuable details.
Yizi Chen +5 more
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Combining Remote-Sensing-Derived Data and Historical Maps for Long-Term Back-Casting of Urban Extents [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 Spatially explicit, fine-grained datasets describing historical urban extents are rarely available prior to the era of operational remote sensing. However, such data are necessary to better understand long-term urbanization and land development processes
Johannes H. Uhl +6 more
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Utilizing historical maps in identification of long-term land use and land cover changes. [PDF]
Ambio, 2023 Knowledge in the magnitude and historical trends in land use and land cover (LULC) is needed to understand the changing status of the key elements of the landscape and to better target management efforts. However, this information is not easily available
Mäyrä J +4 more
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Curriculum learning-based strategy for low-density archaeological mound detection from historical maps in India and Pakistan. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 This paper presents two algorithms for the large-scale automatic detection and instance segmentation of potential archaeological mounds on historical maps.
Berganzo-Besga I +11 more
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Towards the automated large-scale reconstruction of past road networks from historical maps. [PDF]
Comput Environ Urban Syst, 2022 Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of transportation ...
Uhl JH, Leyk S, Chiang YY, Knoblock CA.
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 Scanned historical maps are available from different sources in various scales and contents. Automatic geographical feature extraction from these historical maps is an essential task to derive valuable spatial information on the characteristics and ...
Burak Ekim +2 more
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Semantic Tagging on Historical Maps [PDF]
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, 2013 Tags assigned by users to shared content can be ambiguous. As a possible solution, we propose semantic tagging as a collaborative process in which a user selects and associates Web resources drawn from a knowledge context.
Guimbretiere, Francois +3 more
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The protected flora of long-established cemeteries in Hungary: Using historical maps in biodiversity conservation. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 The role of anthropogenically influenced habitats in conserving elements of the original wildlife has increased worldwide simultaneously with the disappearance of natural sites.
Löki V +7 more
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Reconstructing Taiwan's land cover changes between 1904 and 2015 from historical maps and satellite images. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 A new reconstruction of changes in Taiwan’s land cover and estimated uncertainty between 1904 and 2015 is presented. The reconstruction is made by integrating geographical information from historical maps and SPOT satellite images, to obtain spatially ...
Chen YY +6 more
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Building Linked Spatio-Temporal Data from Vectorized Historical Maps [PDF]
The Semantic Web17th International Conference, 2020 Historical maps provide a rich source of information for researchers in the social and natural sciences. These maps contain detailed documentation of a wide variety of natural and human-made features and their changes over time, such as the changes in ...
Shbita B +5 more
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