Segment optimization and data-driven thresholding for knowledge-based landslide detection by object-based image analysis

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 12 PART 1, 2011, Pages 4928-4943

  Martha, Tapas Ranjan ^a,b   Kerle, Norman ^b   Van Westen, Cees J ^b   Jetten, Victor ^b   Kumar, K Vinod ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disaster support; feature extraction; India; K means cluster analysis; object oriented analysis (OOA); segmentation

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DATA-DRIVEN; DIAGNOSTIC PARAMETER; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FALSE POSITIVE; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIA; K-MEANS CLUSTER ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED CLASSIFICATION; LANDSLIDE DETECTION; LINEAR IMAGING; MULTISCALES; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; NATURAL LANDSCAPES; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PROCESS KNOWLEDGE; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; REGION GROWING; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SCANNING SENSORS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; THRESHOLDING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

LANDSLIDES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOCORRELATION; CARTOSAT-1; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CURVATURE; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 82155192323     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2151866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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