FIG Article of the Month, December 2024 - A paper from the FIG Regional Conference 2024, Nepal written by Sanjeevan Shrestha, Tina Baidar and Shangharsha Thapa, Nepal.: Read more here
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FIG publishes each month the FIG Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors.

The article of the month in December 2024 is written by Sanjeevan Shrestha, Tina Baidar and Shangharsha Thapa, Nepal. Improving Cadastral Accuracy for Disaster Management: The Role of Segment Anything Model (SAM) in Digitizing Historical Cadastral Maps. The paper explores the application of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for automating the digitization of historical cadastral maps, specifically focussing on land parcel boundary extraction, specifically in the context of Nepal.  Read the article

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