Marker-controlled watershed-based segmentation of multiresolution remote sensing images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2987-3004

  Gaetano, Raffaele ^a,b   Masi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Poggi, Giovanni ^a,b   Verdoliva, Luisa ^a,b   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic marker generation; data fusion; morphological operators; multiresolution (MR) images; pansharpening; segmentation; watershed

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; WATERSHEDS;

AUTOMATIC MARKER GENERATION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; MARKER-CONTROLLED WATERSHEDS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; MULTI-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; MULTIRESOLUTION; MULTISPECTRAL COMPONENTS; PAN-SHARPENING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

BIOMARKER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84923195443     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2367129     Document Type: Article

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