Data transformation functions for expanded search spaces in geographic sample supervised segment generation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3791-3821

  Fourie, Christoff ^a   Schoepfer, Elisabeth ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data transformations; Geographic object based image analysis; Metaheuristics; Sample supervised; Segmentation; Spatial metrics

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DATA TRANSFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING FUNCTIONS; LOW LEVEL IMAGE PROCESSING; META HEURISTICS; SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL METRICS; STOCHASTIC SEARCH METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84901494529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6053791     Document Type: Article

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