A review of supervised object-based land-cover image classification

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 130, Issue , 2017, Pages 277-293

  Ma, Lei ^a   Li, Manchun ^a   Ma, Xiaoxue ^a,b   Cheng, Liang ^a   Du, Peijun ^a   Liu, Yongxue ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU SECOND NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GEOBIA; Land cover mapping; Meta analysis; OBIA; Review; Supervised object based classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; DEEP LEARNING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; REVIEWS;

GEOBIA; LAND COVER MAPPING; META ANALYSIS; OBIA; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARRAY; CORRELATION; DATABASE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; META-ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPERVISED LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 85021219961     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.06.001     Document Type: Review

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