Textual Model of Graphic Data

This paper presents a new, textual model of image geoinformation. This model can be applied to the digital photogrammetry and GIS. Black-and-white and color digital images are conversed into a text by means of an alphabet, context-free grammars, and a language belonging to the image languages class; all specially developed for this purpose. Geometrical properties of terrain objects are analysed with a distinct mathematical device. An important aspect of this textual model is that the generated text is a semantic network. Thus, lexicomorphologic, lexicologic and lexicographic methods of mathematical linguistics can be applied to the computer recognition of terrain objects and to the analysis of their properties. Examples of graphic data in the textual model are presented.