TY - BOOK AU - Zakaria Yehia Ahmed Abdelgawad AU - Yasser Sherif Elmanadili , AU - Youssef Ibrahim Abdelaziz , TI - Development and assessment of semi - automatic technique for object recognition and feature extraction from digital maps and satellite images / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Zakaria Yehia Ahmed Abdelgawad , KW - Digital Conversion KW - Digital maps KW - Geographic Information System N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - This research presents a novel methodology for the extraction and recognition of landmarks and polygons from base maps and images . The proposed method proceeds by recognizing the features in different layers using Template Matching that returns an image of the same size as the input one and detecting the features ER -