Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis - Towards a new paradigm

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 180-191

  Blaschke, Thomas ^a   Hay, Geoffrey J ^a   Kelly, Maggi ^a   Lang, Stefan ^a   Hofmann, Peter ^a   Addink, Elisabeth ^a   Queiroz Feitosa, Raul ^a   van der Meer, Freek ^a   van der Werff, Harald ^a   van Coillie, Frieke ^a   Tiede, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

GEOBIA; GIScience; Image classification; Image segmentation; OBIA; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING;

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; GEOBIA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; GISCIENCE; OBIA; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARADIGM SHIFT; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84890209110     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.09.014     Document Type: Article

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