Object-based change detection in Urban Areas: The effects of segmentation strategy, scale, and feature space on unsupervised methods

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Ma, Lei ^a,b   Li, Manchun ^a   Blaschke, Thomas ^b   Ma, Xiaoxue ^a   Tiede, Dirk ^b   Cheng, Liang ^a   Chen, Zhenjie ^a   Chen, Dong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

High spatial resolution; MAD; Multiresolution segmentation; OBCD; Sensitivity; Specificity; Two date change detection; Worl dView 2

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; OBJECT DETECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

CHANGE DETECTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MULTIRESOLUTION SEGMENTATION; OBCD; SENSITIVITY; SPECIFICITY; WORL DVIEW-2;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85017388204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090761     Document Type: Article

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