AUTOMATED DETECTION OF OIL DEPOTS FROM HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES: A NEW PERSPECTIVE


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Ok A. Ö., BASESKI E.

Joint ISPRS Conference on Photogrammetric Image Analysis (PIA) and High Resolution Earth Imaging for Geospatial Information (HRIGI), Munich, Germany, 25 - 27 March 2015, pp.149-156 identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.5194/isprsannals-ii-3-w4-149-2015
  • City: Munich
  • Country: Germany
  • Page Numbers: pp.149-156
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: No

Abstract

This paper presents an original approach to identify oil depots from single high resolution aerial/satellite images in an automated manner. The new approach considers the symmetric nature of circular oil depots, and it computes the radial symmetry in a unique way. An automated thresholding method to focus on circular regions and a new measure to verify circles are proposed. Experiments are performed on six GeoEye-1 test images. Besides, we perform tests on 16 Google Earth images of an industrial test site acquired in a time series manner (between the years 1995 and 2012). The results reveal that our approach is capable of detecting circle objects in very different/difficult images. We computed an overall performance of 95.8% for the GeoEye-1 dataset. The time series investigation reveals that our approach is robust enough to locate oil depots in industrial environments under varying illumination and environmental conditions. The overall performance is computed as 89.4% for the Google Earth dataset, and this result secures the success of our approach compared to a state-of-the-art approach.