External geo-information in the segmentation of VHR imagery improves the detection of imperviousness in urban neighborhoods

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 428-435

  Verbeeck, Klaartje ^a   Van Orshoven, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classification; Hydrology; Image segmentation; Large scale reference database; Obia; Quickbird

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NEIGHBORHOOD; QUICKBIRD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84864502305     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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