Integrating user needs on misclassification error sensitivity into image segmentation quality assessment

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 451-459

  Costa, Hugo ^a   Foody, Giles M ^a   Boyd, Doreen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GEOMETRY;

LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER INFORMATIONS; MISCLASSIFICATION ERROR; OBJECT BASED; SEGMENTATION QUALITY; SIMILARITY INDICES; USER NEED;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INDEX METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84930066941     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.81.6.451     Document Type: Article

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