[GRASS5] [bug #3898] (grass) Object Oriented Classification

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:06:31AM +0100, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3898
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> Subject: Object Oriented Classification
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> Platform: Mac OSX
> grass obtained from: CVS
> grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
> GRASS Version: 6.1.cvs
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> I've recently been made aware of a classification systems called object oriented classification.  At pressent, the only program that does it is eCognition.  I hate to use the term "wave of the future" but I think it qualifies.  I was wondering what the possiblity of working object oriented classification into GRASS would be?  It already does supervised and unsupervised classification (as well as partially supervised).
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> Not being a programer, I am not sure how complicated that would be, so I am not holding my breath for 6.1.  But may be a release down the road.
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> GRASS has the capablities of ARCGIS and ERDAS Imagine.  Imagine may be incorperating object oriented classification soon, so it would be useful if there were an opensource alternitive.
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> Thanks for listening.
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> Kurt Springs

Kurt,

one could think of combining the (internal) results of i.smap with
the new DB engine to create a hierarchial model with sets of
rules. The pieces are partially there, but it needs certainly
some efforts. But I am not too familiar with eCognitions approach.

Markus