On 30/10/12 10:20, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
NikosA:
I wonder why the term ISODATA [2] is not to be traced anywhere in the
GRASS manuals, nor in the GRASS book (3rd ed.). Can someone confirm that
i.cluster is an(other) implementation of the ISODATA clustering
algorithm?
MarkusN:
I search in my inbox and found some earlier discussion with the
Subject: "Re: [GRASS-user] Re: algorithm used in i.cluster", see
below.
PS: Still we need a text snippet to improve the manual...
Things to keep in mind from the archived discussions (below):
- the ISODATA algorithm (Ball and Hall, 1967) is a common modification of the
K-means algorithm
- the algorithm implemented in the "i.cluster" module involves merging of
classes (I_cluster_merge) though no splitting function seems to be implemented
To add: i.cluster output is also not equivalent to ISODATA in so far as
it does not classify all pixels, but only creates signature files for
the classes. Classification is then done by i.maxlik which is not
equivalent to ISODATA. It might be an interesting addition to i.cluster
to work with all pixels (not only a subset) and to create an output
assigning each pixel to a given class which would be close (but not
equal) to ISODATA output.
Moritz
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