Recursive active contours for hierarchical segmentation of wetlands in high-resolution satellite imagery of Arctic landscapes

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 137-140

  Skurikhin, Alexei N ^a   Wilson, Cathy J ^a   Liljedahl, Anna ^b   Rowland, Joel C ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

active contours; Arctic; hierarchical segmentation; polygon landscape; satellite image; thaw lake

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAKES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THAWING; WETLANDS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ARCTIC; HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION; POLYGON LANDSCAPE; SATELLITE IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84902251068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSIAI.2014.6806048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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