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Developer

G. Castilla

Website

http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=545

Algorithm

Watershed and region merging

Field of application

Remote sensing, assisted photo-inter­pretation

Fundamental reference

Castilla, G., Hay, G.J. and Ruiz, J.R. (2008) Size-constrained region merging (SCRM): an automated delineation tool for assisted photointerpretation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 74 (4): 409-419.

State of development

02/2007

Operating system

Win, Linux, Unix

System environment

IDL, IDL- VM, ENVI

Number of parameters

4

Ca. runtime2 , 3  

< 2 min

Reproduce­ability 4

No

Classification support

Polygons with attri­butes

Max. image size (ca. Pixel)2

2,000 x 2,000 (IDL limitation)

Max. bit depth

64

Input formats

Raster (GeoTIFF, JPEG, ENVI)

Vector output format

Shapefile

Use of external data

No

Availability

Free

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