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=== eCognition ===
The ''eCognition'' Suitesuite offers three components which can be used stand-alone or in combination to solve image analysis tasks. eCognition Developer is a development environment for object-based image analysis. It is used in earth sciences to develop rule sets (or applications) for the analysis of remote sensing data. eCognition Architect enables non-technical users to configure, calibrate and execute image analysis workflows created in eCognition Developer. eCognition Server software provides a processing environment for batch execution of image analysis jobs.
eCognition software is utilized in numerous [[remote sensing]] and geospatial application scenarios and environments, using a variety of data types:
*''Generic'': Rapid Mapping, Change Detection, Object Recognition
*''By Environment''environment: Diverse Landcover Mapping, Urban Analysis (i.e. impervious surface area analysis for taxation, property assessment for insurance, inventory of green infrastructure), Forestry (i.e. biomass measurement, species identification, firescar measurement), Agriculture (i.e. regional planning, precision farming, crisis response), Marine and Riparian (i.e. ecosystem evaluation, disaster management, harbor monitoring).
*''Other'': Defense, security, atmosphere and climate
The online eCognition community was launched in July 2009 and had 2813 members as of July 9, 2010. Membership is distributed globally and user conferences are held regularly, the last having taken place in November 2009 in Munich, Germany. The bi-annual GEOBIA ([[Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis]]) conference is heavily attended by eCognition users, with the majority of presentations based on eCognition software.
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