Modified average local variance for pixel-level scale selection of multiband remote sensing images and its scale effect on image classification accuracy

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ming, Dongping ^a   Du, Jinyang ^b   Zhang, Xiyu ^a   Liu, Tiantian ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

average local variance; band selection; image classification; multiband remote sensing image; pixel based scale selection; spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

BAND SELECTION; LOCAL VARIANCE; MULTI-BAND REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SCALE SELECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84905457559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073565     Document Type: Article

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