Damaged Airport Runway Extraction Based on Line and Corner Constraints

Yalun Zhao, Yanchao Cong, Zepeng Wang*, Jiulu Gong, Derong Chen

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Abstract

The incompleteness of damaged airport runway areas is a significant challenge to the existing airport runway extraction methods. In this paper, we propose a damaged airport runway extraction method that combines line with corner constraints. In the proposed method, we first extract lines and corners from the continuous edges of the region of interest. Then, based on line and corner constraints, we identify the rough location of each runway by calculating its central axis parameters and generate candidate runway areas by calculating and connecting the runway vertex coordinates. Further, the candidate runway areas are selected as final results that satisfy the runway length constraint. In 6 typical airport satellite images and 3 post-damage images, the average integrity of runway extraction is more than 95%, and the average quality of runway extraction is nearly 93%. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs well both on damaged and undamaged airport runway areas. Compared with the state-of-the-art method, the proposed method is more effective and efficient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2022
EditorsRong Song
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1282-1287
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665484565
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2022 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 28 Oct 202230 Oct 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2022

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period28/10/2230/10/22

Keywords

  • airport runway extraction
  • corner constraint
  • google earth image
  • line constraint
  • post-damage image

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