Information fusion for rural land-use classification with high-resolution satellite imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART I, 2003, Pages 883-890

  Sun, Wanxiao ^a   Heidt, Volker ^b   Gong, Peng ^c   Xu, Gang ^d  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge extraction; High resolution satellite imagery; Image classification; Information fusion; Land use classification; Multispectral classification; Probabilistic relaxation; Region growing algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREAS; SATELLITES;

EDGE EXTRACTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION FUSION; MULTISPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION; PROBABILISTIC RELAXATION; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM; RURAL LAND USE CLASSIFICATION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0037934720     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.810707     Document Type: Article

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