A local approach to optimize the scale parameter in multiresolution segmentation for multispectral imagery

Geocarto International

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 937-961

  Canovas Garcia F ^a,b   Alonso Sarria F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

eCognitionTM; object based image analysis; optimization; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84938420549     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2015.1004131     Document Type: Article

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