期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2004
卷号：XXXV Part B4
页码：216-221
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：In image understanding, the importance of language (e.g. the choice of class names in image analysis) has been widely underestimated up to now. Within this paper, the close interaction between language and graphics is analysed for geospatial applications. It is shown that texts and maps are two complementary representations of knowledge, resulting among other in the use of an equal terminology for verbal and pictorial representations. Two different real scenarios (Brazilian cadastre and message analysing systems for disaster management) are introduced where the direct relationship of language and image analysis becomes not only obvious, but the mutual transformation - of one representation into the other - is the essential task of the application. First results of the presented project already demonstrate how both forms of representation can be transformed to a common symbolic level as a basis for further synergetic analyses
