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One source of additional information is the vector data, which are available in archives for many urban areas. Further, the object-based approach provides a more effective way to incorporate vector data into the classification process as the misregistration between different layers is less problematic in object-based compared to pixel-based image analysis. In this research, a hierarchical rule-based object-based classification framework was developed based on a small subset of QuickBird (QB) imagery coupled with a layer of height points called Spot Height (SH) to classify a complex urban environment. In the rule-set, different spectral, morphological, contextual, class-related, and thematic layer features were employed. To assess the general applicability of the rule-set, the same classification framework and a similar one using slightly different thresholds applied to larger subsets of QB and IKONOS (IK), respectively. Results show an overall accuracy of 92% and 86% and a Kappa coefficient of 0.88 and 0.80 for the QB and IK Test image, respectively. The average producers\u2019 accuracies for impervious land cover types were also 82% and 74.5% for QB and IK.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs4082256","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,3]],"date-time":"2012-08-03T11:02:44Z","timestamp":1343991764000},"page":"2256-2276","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":85,"title":["Object-Based Classification of Urban Areas Using VHR Imagery and Height Points Ancillary Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Bahram","family":"Salehi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, 15 Dineen Dr., Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, 15 Dineen Dr., Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ming","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Brunswick, 15 Dineen Dr., Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vivek","family":"Dey","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, 15 Dineen Dr., Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1276","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2009.02.014","article-title":"A neural network approach using multi-scale textural metrics from very high-resolution panchromatic imagery for urban land-use classification","volume":"113","author":"Pacifici","year":"2009","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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