Integrated generalization method of contours and rivers considering geographic characteristics

Abstract

In the integrated generalization of contours and rivers, it is more important to consider the generalization of their geographical characteristics in addition to focusing on the graph generalization. Therefore, we elaborated on the geographical characteristics on which the contours and rivers depend in the integrated generalization, qualitatively describe and quantitatively characterize the geographical characteristics (spatial characteristics and geographical elements information content characteristics), and put forward the integrated generalization method of contours and rivers considering geographical characteristics. Based on the geographical characteristics, this article first identifies the relief and river network morphology, then as an essential terrain constraint, the spatial analysis and selection of topographic feature lines were carried out. Second, according to the integrated generalization method, the contours and rivers were discretized into 3D points along with describing semantic information and giving weights. Finally, the integrated generalization considering geographical characteristics experiment was implemented and well generalization results were obtained.

Keywords

• geographical characteristics
• contours
• rivers
• topographic feature lines
• integrated generalization