Using mixed objects in the training of object-based image classifications

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 190, Issue , 2017, Pages 188-197

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mixed pixels; OBIA; Over segmentation; Scale parameter; Under segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING;

MIXED PIXEL; OBIA; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; OBJECT-BASED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; OVER SEGMENTATION; PIXEL BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; SCALE PARAMETER;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION; THEMATIC MAPPING; TRAINING;

EID: 85008210901     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.017     Document Type: Article

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