Scale computation on high spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery multi-scale segmentation

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2017, Pages 5186-5214

  Liu, Jianhua ^a   Du, Mingyi ^a   Mao, Zhengyuan ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEMANTICS;

CALCULATION PARAMETERS; COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MULTI-SCALE IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85038216873     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1325536     Document Type: Review

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