Mapping of agricultural crops from single high-resolution multispectral images-data-driven smoothing vs. parcel-based smoothing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5611-5638

  Ozdarici Ok, Asli ^a   Ok, Ali Ozgun ^a   Schindler, Konrad ^b  

^a Nevsehir HBV University Dept of Geodesy and Photogrametry Engineering   (Turkey)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Classification; Multilabel graph cuts; Parcel based smoothing; Satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CROPS; DECISION TREES; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RANDOM PROCESSES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROSCOPY; SUGAR BEETS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; GRAPH CUT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; PARCEL-BASED SMOOTHING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84930016645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70505611     Document Type: Article

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