Segmentation performance evaluation for object-based remotely sensed image analysis

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 617-645

  Corcoran, Padraig ^a   Winstanley, Adam ^a   Mooney, Peter ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL;

COGNITIVE EXPERIMENTS; COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM (HVS); OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; COGNITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; VISION; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951220412     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160902894475     Document Type: Article

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