Object-based image analysis and digital terrain analysis for locating landslides in the Urmia Lake basin, Iran

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

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4806-4817

  Blaschke, Thomas ^a,b   Feizizadeh, Bakhtiar ^c   Hölbling, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b Research Studios Austria   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

GIScience; Gray level cooccurrence matrix (GLCM); Landslide mapping; Object based image analysis (OBIA); Remote sensing; Rule based classification; Textural analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LANDSLIDES; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING;

GISCIENCE; GRAY LEVEL CO OCCURRENCE MATRIX(GLCM); LANDSLIDE MAPPING; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS (OBIA); RULE-BASED CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSLIDE; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHY;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84921740901     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2350036     Document Type: Article

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