A comparative analysis of pixel- and object-based detection of landslides from very high-resolution images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 64, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-11

  Keyport, Ren N ^a   Oommen, Thomas ^a   Martha, Tapas R ^b   Sajinkumar, K S ^a,c   Gierke, John S ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

Author keywords

Lake atitl n; Landslide mapping; Object Oriented analysis; Segment optimization; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOPHOTO; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; LAKE ATITLAN; SOLOLA;

EID: 85032180686     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.08.015     Document Type: Article

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