Open Collections

Using image hierarchies to interpret LANDSAT data

University of British Columbia

Most automatic LANDSAT image interpretation systems have used traditional Pattern Recognition techniques. Usually each pixel is classified into one of a number of categories by examining its spectral signature, without regard to its spatial context. A survey of such techniques and of computational vision techniques from Artificial Intelligence leads to the design of a new system that allows the spatial structure of the image to control the interpretation. This classifier uses a pyramidal, hierarchical structure of images. A number of experiments with the implementation on LANDSAT images of forest cover show that one can achieve improvements over a conventional classifier in both accuracy (number of pixels correctly interpreted) and readability (number of regions in the interpreted image) without sacrificing efficiency.

Text

2010-02-16

For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20294

Computer Science

University of British Columbia

Graduate