Fire hazard studies have shown that lightning is a major threat to petroleum storage facilities, especially floating roof tanks (FRT) due the risk of lightning-induced fires which may ultimately result in tank boil over, and an increased fire spreading adjoining facilities. Lightning natural occurrence with scientific attributes been studied for decades towards mitigating lightning-related haza...

Using pre-defined models to extract spatial information of the building, called model-based building extraction, has been considered as a convincible approach to improve the existing photogrammetric techniques. However, there is still a bottleneck on the practical efficiency and accuracy. This paper proposed a semi-automated approach to extracting buildings from multiple aerial images as well a...