An object-based workflow to extract landforms at multiple scales from two distinct data types

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 947-951

  D'Oleire Oltmanns, S ^a,b   Eisank, C ^b   Dragut L ^c   Blaschke, T ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Drumlin; estimation of scale parameter (ESP); gully; landform classification; multiscale; object based image analysis (OBIA); segmentation; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

DRUMLIN; GULLY; LANDFORM CLASSIFICATION; MULTISCALES; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS (OBIA); SCALE PARAMETER;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84878666673     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2254465     Document Type: Article

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