A feature extraction software tool for agricultural object-based image analysis

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-296

  Ruiz, L A ^a   Recio, J A ^a   Fernandez Sarria A ^a   Hermosilla, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agricultural database updating; Feature extraction; Hough transform; Image analysis; Parcel based; Remote sensing; Semivariogram; Texture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DATABASE UPDATING; CO-OCCURRENCE-MATRIX; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTORS; DYNAMIC TOOLS; EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; GEO-SPATIAL DATABASE; GREY LEVELS; HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL IMAGES; IMAGE BAND; INPUT DATAS; INTENSITY VALUES; LAND USE/LAND COVER; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NUMERIC VALUES; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT SHAPE; PARCEL-BASED; PROCESSING TIME; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE TOOL; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; REMOTE SENSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; DATABASE; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; NUMERICAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TEXTURE; TRANSFORM;

EID: 79954530855     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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