BBAuthors: Gilbertson, J.K.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2016)
This study examined the value of automated and manual feature selection, when applied to machine learning and object-based image analysis (OBIA), for the differentiation of crops in a Mediterranean climate. Five Landsat8 images covering the phenological stages of seven major crops types in the study area (Cape Winelands, South Africa) were acquired and processed. A statistical image fusion technique was used to enhance the spatial resolution of the imagery. The pan-sharpened imagery was used to produce a range of spectral features, textural measures, indices and colour transformations, after which it was segmented using the multi-resolution (MRS) algorithm. The entire set of 205 featu...