A new segmentation method for very high resolution imagery using spectral and morphological information

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 101, Issue , 2015, Pages 145-162

  Liu, Jing ^a,b   Li, Peijun ^a   Wang, Xue ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GEOBIA; Image segmentation; Morphological profile; Region merging; Seeded region growing; Very high resolution image

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; MERGING; PIXELS;

GEOBIA; MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILE; REGION-MERGING; SEEDED REGION GROWING; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION (VHR) IMAGE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AVHRR; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PIXEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84920942543     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.11.009     Document Type: Article

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