Object-based land-cover mapping with high resolution aerial photography at a county scale in midwestern USA

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11372-11390

  Li, Xiaoxiao ^a   Shao, Guofan ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indiana; Land cover classification; OBIA; Object based image analysis; Orthophoto; Urban landscape mapping

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PIXELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SURVEYING; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

INDIANA; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; OBIA; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; ORTHO PHOTOS; URBAN LANDSCAPE;

MAPPING;

EID: 84912102806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61111372     Document Type: Article

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