Detection of built-up area in optical and synthetic aperture radar images using conditional random fields

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kenduiywo, Benson Kipkemboi ^a   Tolpekin, Valentyn A ^b   Stein, Alfred ^b  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

built up areas; conditional random fields; spatial dependencies; variogram

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RADAR IMAGING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILT-UP AREAS; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS(CRFS); CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCIES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVMS); VARIOGRAMS;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 84897766087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083672     Document Type: Article

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