Segmentation and object-based classification for the extraction of the building class from LIDAR DEMs

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1076-1087

  Miliaresis, George ^a   Kokkas, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; LIDAR; Region growing; Terrain classification; Terrain modelling; Urban segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEMS); GEOMORPHOMETRIC SEGMENTATION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LIDAR); OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; TERRAIN MODELLING;

BUILDINGS;

BUILDINGS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIDAR; MORPHOMETRY; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN;

EID: 34250613472     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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