Author: Li Wei Benie Goze B. He Dong-Chen Wang Shengrui Ziou Djemel Gwyn Q. Hugh J.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISSN: 1366-5901
Source: International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol.20, Iss.17, 1999-11, pp. : 3377-3390
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Abstract
Watershed transformation is a powerful image segmentation tool recently developed in mathematical morphology. In order to segment images initially oversegmented by watershed transformation, two approaches are considered: one is the thresholding of the gradient image proposed by us which is capable of keeping more salient image contours; the other is the well known centroid linkage region growing algorithm which merges regions with certain statistical similarities. By choosing suitable thresholds in the two approaches, hierarchical image segmentation algorithms can be constructed. A Ratio of Averages (ROA) edge detector is proposed to replace the morphological edge detectors prior to watershed transformation when applied to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Applications to SAR agricultural image segmentation with these hierarchical segmentation algorithms are presented. It is demonstrated that the algorithms are efficient in the segmentation of the SARimages and appropriate for land use applications when the land cover is made up of individual plots.
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