Optimization of scale and parametrization for terrain segmentation: An application to soil-landscape modeling

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1875-1883

  Drǎguţ, Lucian ^a,b   Schauppenlehner, Thomas ^c   Muhar, Andreas ^c   Strobl, Josef ^a,d   Blaschke, Thomas ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^e Research Studio iSpace   (Austria)

Author keywords

Curvature; Focal mean statistics; OBIA; Regression; Soil productivity.; Terrain segmentation

Indexed keywords

CURVATURE; FOCAL MEAN STATISTICS; OBIA; REGRESSION; SOIL PRODUCTIVITY.; TERRAIN SEGMENTATION;

CELL MEMBRANES; CROPS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SOILS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CROP YIELD; CURVATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TERRAIN;

EID: 68849130937     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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