Landslide mapping from aerial photographs using change detection-based Markov random field

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 187, Issue , 2016, Pages 76-90

  Li, Zhongbin ^a,b   Shi, Wenzhong ^a   Lu, Ping ^c   Yan, Lin ^b   Wang, Qunming ^d   Miao, Zelang ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial photographs; Change detection; Landslide mapping (LM); Markov random field (MRF); Region based level set evolution (RLSE)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LANDSLIDES; MAPPING; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; CHANGE DETECTION; LANDSLIDE MAPPING; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; DETECTION METHOD; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; MARKOV CHAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA; HONG KONG; LANTAU ISLAND;

EID: 84991434399     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.008     Document Type: Article

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