Automatic mapping of linear woody vegetation features in agricultural landscapes using very high resolution imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 511-522

  Aksoy, Selim ^a   Akçay, H Gökhan ^a   Wassenaar, Tom ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Linear object detection; Multiscale texture analysis; Object based performance evaluation; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

MULTISCALE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT DETECTION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; REMOTE SENSING; TARGETS; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN UNION; HEDGEROW; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 73349141688     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2027702     Document Type: Article

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