Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA)

Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) is a remote sensing image processing paradigm that groups pixels into meaningful image objects before classification, rather than analysing each pixel independently. Formally articulated and consolidated by Thomas Blaschke in his landmark 2010 ISPRS review, OBIA draws on multiresolution segmentation algorithms and combines spectral, spatial, contextual, and textural object attributes to produce semantically rich land-cover maps from high-resolution imagery.