Abstract
Most agricultural statistics are calculated per field, and it is well known that classification procedures for homogeneous objects produce better results than per-pixel classification. In this study, a multispectral segmentation method for automated delineation of agricultural field boundaries in remotely sensed images is presented. Edge information from a gradient edge detector is integrated with a segmentation algorithm. The multispectral edge detector uses all available multispectral information by adding the magnitudes and directions of edges derived from edge detection in single bands. The addition is weighted by edge direction, to remove noise and to enhance the major direction. The resulting edge from the edge detection algorithm is combined with a segmentation method based on a simple ISODATA algorithm, where the initial centroids are decided by the distances to the edges from the edge detection step. From this procedure, the number of regions will most likely exceed the actual number of fields in the image and merging of regions is performed. By calculating the mean and covariance matrix for pixels of neighboring regions, regions with a high generalized likelihood-ratio test quantity will be merged. In this way, information from several spectral bands (and/or different dates) can be used for delineating field borders with different characteristics. The introduction of the ISODATA classifier compared with a previously used region growing procedure improves the output. Some results are compared with manually extracted field boundaries.
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