Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (9): 1959-1968.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2022.20210129

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Complexity measurement of line element on nautical chart considering local difference

WEI Hongcheng, ZHANG Lihua, TANG Lulu, DONG Jian, LI Gaixiao, YUAN Hao   

  1. Department of Military Oceanography and Hydrography and Cartography, Dalian Naval Academy, Dalian 116018, China
  • Received:2021-03-12 Revised:2021-11-30 Published:2022-09-29
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41871369;41901320;42071439)

Abstract: The existing line-element-complexity-measurement methods are usually to calculate the overall complexity of a single line element, which cannot consider the differences of line element in different regions. Therefore, we present a complexity measurement method of line element on nautical chart considering local difference. Firstly, the correlation between the length of edge in triangle network and the complexity of the line elements is analyzed. Then, the complex field of line elements on nautical chart is obtained by the steps of constructing constrained Delaunay triangulation, calculating the data point complexity of line elements and interpolating. Finally, we choose two groups of typical nautical charts as experimental data, and verify the rationality of this method by several statistical experiments. The experimental results show that:the proposed method, considering local differences, can define the complexity of line elements on nautical chart better, which also can accurately and quantitatively evaluate the complexity of line elements in each region.

Key words: nautical chart, line element, complexity, constrained Delaunay triangulation

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