Boundary-constrained multi-scale segmentation method for remote sensing images

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-25

  Zhang, Xueliang ^a   Xiao, Pengfeng ^a   Song, Xiaoqun ^b   She, Jiangfeng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Provincial Department of Land Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary constrained multi scale segmentation; Edge strength; Region growing; Remote sensing image segmentation; Step Wise Scale Parameter

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MERGING; REMOTE SENSING;

EDGE STRENGTH; MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION; REGION GROWING; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SCALE PARAMETER;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84873909286     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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