EuroSDR Projects - Host Ireland

Belgium, provided by their NMCAs. High-resolution satellite data from Ikonos or Quickbird is
considered at a considerably lower priority, as these data are not extensively available, their cost is
high, their resolution often insufficient, and research on road extraction from these data limited.
6. Analysis of the submitted results investigating different aspects including: completeness, reliability,
accuracy, main advantages/disadvantages of each approach, input data requirements and other
conditions, especially the sensitivity of the results to the selection of the parameters, delivery of
attribute information, again including completeness, reliability, and accuracy. In addition, qualitative
analysis of the results, including stereo superimposition of derived vectors, will be performed. The
contribution of NMCAs in this process is necessary. The coordinating center for the analysis will be
UniBw München.
7. Presentation of the main WG work with a workshop towards the end of its life in a practically
oriented event maybe at Institut Géographique National (IGN), Paris, or Institut Cartographic de
Catalunya (ICC), Barcelona. The WG work can also be presented and combined with other similar
work at other appropriate events, such as by dedicated technical sessions. Cooperation with ISPRS,
especially WGs IC II/IV, III/3,4,6,7,8, IV/7 is absolutely necessary, while ties with IEEE GRSS Data
Fusion Committee, and Earsel SIG Data Fusion will be exploited with lower priority.
8. Publication of a final report within the OEEPE official publications.
9. Possible coordinated publication of several papers or a theme issue in an international journal.
Time Plan
If the project and WG is approved at the OEEPE June meeting, the first five action points above
should be finalized by the end of 2002. The performance and analysis of test results should be
concluded by August 2003. The project work and WG could be concluded by the end of 2003.
Support and financing
The support of NMCAs for provision of data and evaluation of test results, especially manual control,
are an important prerequisite. To cover expenses related mainly to organization of events and use of
part-time personnel (especially students) for data preparation and analysis, an amount of 3,000 Euro is
proposed.
Helmut Mayer and Emmanuel Baltsavias, June 4, 2002
Appendix 1.A. Possible interested groups
(incomplete, to be refined after project and WG establishment)
1. Academia/Research
Active or previously active in road extraction: University College London (Dowman, Muller), École
National Supérior de Télécommunications (Maître, Roux), Univ. of Alcalá (Malpica), ETH Zürich
(Baltsavias, van Gool), Univ. of Karlsruhe (Bähr), Research Inst. for Optronics and Pattern
Recognition (FOM) (Stilla), Univ. Stuttgart (Fritsch, Haala, Walter), Univ. Hannover (Heipke,
Liedtke, Sester), TUM (Ebner, Baumgartner, Wiedemann, Hinz), UniBw München (Mayer), Univ.
Bonn (Förstner), TU Dresden (Fuchs), Univ. Haifa (Peled, Barzohar), TU Delft (Vosselman),
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Jedynak), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
(Klang), Carnegie Mellon University (McKeown), University of Southern California (Nevatia, Price),
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