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The Organic Perspective To Cape Town-South Africa Shack Extraction

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Moreblessings Shoko and Julian Lloyd Smit

The spatial reconstruction of man-made objects from urban imagery for use in management and emergency reconnaissance has been a growing research area for over two decades. Informal settlements are an example of man-made objects and they also represent one of the greatest modern challenges of developing
countries. Urban governors constantly require up to date spatial and attribute information on the state of development in these settlements. The challenge with data capture in slums lies in the numerous contextual and societal complexities that characterize these unplanned environs. Several ground and image based
techniques have been tested in data creation and unlike groundbased data collection techniques, image based techniques have... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2327-4581.1000182

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