“…While the pixel-based techniques, such as the classic Maximum Likelihood or Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifiers, primarily emphasize the independence of pixels, the spectral-spatial frameworks such as Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) (Blaschke et al, 2014) or Minimum Spanning Forest (MSF) (Tarabalka et al, 2010a) classifiers employ both the spectral characteristics and the spatial context of the pixels. Many researchers have demonstrated that the use of spectral-spatial information improves the classification results, compared to the use of spectral data alone, in hyperspectral imagery (Plaza et al, 2009;Li et al, 2010;Fauvel et al, 2012;Heras et al, 2014;Xu et al, 2014).…”