Exploration of multitemporal COSMO-skymed data via interactive tree-structured MRF segmentation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2763-2775

  Gaetano, Raffaele ^a   Amitrano, Donato ^a   Masi, Giuseppe ^a   Poggi, Giovanni ^a   Ruello, Giuseppe ^a   Verdoliva, Luisa ^a   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

human machine interaction; Markov random fields (MRF); multitemporal data; segmentation; synthetic aperture radar.; Terms Classification

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MAPS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA; PROCESSING TOOLS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE; TERMS-CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84906861418     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2316595     Document Type: Article

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