Classification of semiurban landscapes from very high-resolution satellite images using a regionalized multiscale segmentation approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taskin Kavzoglu ◽  
Merve Yildiz Erdemir ◽  
Hasan Tonbul
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 1902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shouji Du ◽  
Shihong Du ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Xiuyuan Zhang

Urban functional-zone (UFZ) analysis has been widely used in many applications, including urban environment evaluation, and urban planning and management. How to extract UFZs’ spatial units which delineates UFZs’ boundaries is fundamental to urban applications, but it is still unresolved. In this study, an automatic, context-enabled multiscale image segmentation method is proposed for extracting spatial units of UFZs from very-high-resolution satellite images. First, a window independent context feature is calculated to measure context information in the form of geographic nearest-neighbor distance from a pixel to different image classes. Second, a scale-adaptive approach is proposed to determine appropriate scales for each UFZ in terms of its context information and generate the initial UFZs. Finally, the graph cuts algorithm is improved to optimize the initial UFZs. Two datasets including WorldView-2 image in Beijing and GaoFen-2 image in Nanchang are used to evaluate the proposed method. The results indicate that the proposed method can generate better results from very-high-resolution satellite images than widely used approaches like image tiles and road blocks in representing UFZs. In addition, the proposed method outperforms existing methods in both segmentation quality and running time. Therefore, the proposed method appears to be promising and practical for segmenting large-scale UFZs.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yasser Mostafa ◽  
Mahmoud Nokrashy O. Ali ◽  
Faten Mostafa ◽  
Mohamed Yousef

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