Developing a semantic model of glacial landforms for object-based terrain classification-the example of glacial cirques

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 38, Issue 4C7, 2010, Pages

  Eisank, C ^a   Dregut L ^a,b   Gotz J ^a   Blaschke, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

DEM; Formalization; Glacial cirques; Knowledge; Landform classification; OBIA; Semantics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SEMANTICS; SURVEYING;

DEM; FORMALIZATION; GLACIAL CIRQUES; KNOWLEDGE; LANDFORM CLASSIFICATION; OBIA;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 80455153926     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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