Classification of Remotely Sensed Images Using the GeneSIS Fuzzy Segmentation Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5352-5376

  Mylonas, Stelios K ^a   Stavrakoudis, Dimitris G ^a   Theocharis, John B ^a   Mastorocostas, Paris A ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Genetic algorithms; Image segmentation; Marker selection; Segmentation fusion; Spectral spatial classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; REMOTE SENSING;

FITNESS FUNCTION DESIGNS; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; MARKER SELECTION; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES; SEQUENTIAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPECTRAL-SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION; SUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC MARKER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85027955131     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2421640     Document Type: Article

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