A supervised and fuzzy-based approach to determine optimal multi-resolution image segmentation parameters

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1029-1044

  Tong, Hengjian ^a,c   Maxwell, Travis ^b,c   Zhang, Yun ^c   Dey, Vivek ^c,d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 84868036307     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.78.10.1029     Document Type: Article

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