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Extended Watershed EWS - click to go back to results - 

Developer

P. Li and B. Xiao

Website

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Algorithm

Multi-channel watershed transformation

Field of application

Remote sensing

Fundamental reference

Li P, Xiao B (in press) Multispectral image segmentation by a multichannel wa-tershed-based approach. Int J Rem Sens.

State of development

02/2006

Operating system

Win

System environment

Stand-alone

Number of parameters

2

Ca. runtime2 , 3  

3 – 5 min

Reproduce­ability 4

No

Classification support

Yes (Object based classification via overlay)

Max. image size (ca. Pixel)2

No limitations

Max. bit depth

16

Input formats

Raster (ENVI)

Vector output format

No (external conversion)

Use of external data

No

Availability

On request

1 Parenthesised number: especially relevant segmentation parameters; 2 Specification heavily depends on system resources, parti­cularly main memory; 3 Specifications for the used imagery (2,000 by 2,000 Pixel); 4 When image size is modified; 5 With GDAL-plug-in installed other formats useable, e. g. GeoTIFF, IMG