Classifying a high resolution image of an urban area using super-object information

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 83, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-49

  Johnson, Brian ^a   Xie, Zhixiao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Contextual; High resolution; Land cover; Scale; Segmentation; Urban

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS;

CONTEXTUAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; SCALE; URBAN;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; PIXEL; SEGMENTATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84879561232     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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