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Towards the automated large-scale reconstruction of past road networks from historical maps / Johannes H. Uhl in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, vol 94 (June 2022)  

Public [article]  inComputers, Environment and Urban Systems > vol 94 (June 2022) . - n° 101794 Titre : Towards the automated large-scale reconstruction of past road networks from historical maps Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Johannes H. Uhl, Auteur ; Stefan Leyk, Auteur ; Yao-Yi Chiang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 101794 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géomatique [Termes IGN] analyse de groupement [Termes IGN] analyse de sensibilité [Termes IGN] carte ancienne [Termes IGN] carte routière [Termes IGN] carte topographique [Termes IGN] classification par nuées dynamiques [Termes IGN] données multitemporelles [Termes IGN] Etats-Unis [Termes IGN] extraction du réseau routier [Termes IGN] histoire [Termes IGN] paysage [Termes IGN] réseau routier [Termes IGN] transport routier [Termes IGN] urbanisation Résumé : (auteur) 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 infrastructure such as road networks is crucial. However, spatially explicit, multi-temporal road network data covering large spatial extents are scarce and rarely available prior to the 2000s. Herein, we propose a framework that employs increasingly available scanned and georeferenced historical map series to reconstruct past road networks, by integrating abundant, contemporary road network data and color information extracted from historical maps. Specifically, our method uses contemporary road segments as analytical units and extracts historical roads by inferring their existence in historical map series based on image processing and clustering techniques. We tested our method on over 300,000 road segments representing more than 50,000 km of the road network in the United States, extending across three study areas that cover 42 historical topographic map sheets dated between 1890 and 1950. We evaluated our approach by comparison to other historical datasets and against manually created reference data, achieving F-1 scores of up to 0.95, and showed that the extracted road network statistics are highly plausible over time, i.e., following general growth patterns. We demonstrated that contemporary geospatial data integrated with information extracted from historical map series open up new avenues for the quantitative analysis of long-term urbanization processes and landscape changes far beyond the era of operational remote sensing and digital cartography. Numéro de notice : A2022-947 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101794 Date de publication en ligne : 18/03/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101794 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100182 [article]