Evaluation of data fusion and image segmentation in earth observation based rapid mapping workflows

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-18

  Witharana, Chandi ^a   Civco, Daniel L ^a   Meyer, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

GEOBIA; Humanitarian information; Image fusion; Image segmentation; Rapid mapping; VHSR images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAPPING; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSORS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

GEOBIA; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION; MULTIRESOLUTION SEGMENTATION; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL TESTS; RAPID MAPPING; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; VHSR IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; GEOEYE-1; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 84887861180     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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