Object-oriented QuickBird image sandy area feature information extraction and analysis in the north of Yanchi County

In order to rapidly and accurately extract the feature information of sandy area in the north of Yanchi County, the QuickBird high-resolution remote sensing images were selected as data source. The choice of the best segmentation scale was analysed in depth. The way of object-oriented supervised classification and object-oriented classification by rules were used into information extraction. The results show object-oriented image feature classification can quickly extract characteristic information of sandy area in the north of Yanchi County by choosing the appropriate scale image segmentation and rules which is determined by the different characteristics of extraction information.