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that the generalisation of agricultural objects in ATKIS even 
allows that within such an object there may be small areas 
having another land use as long as they do not exceeded a 
certain size. This is why segmentation is necessary to subdivide 
the original GIS objects into radiometrically homogeneous 
regions (Helmholz & Rottensteiner, 2009). These regions can 
be classified into ‘grassland’, ‘tilled cropland’ and ‘untilled 
cropland’ in the way described in this paper. Afterwards, the 
overall classification of the GIS object is carried out by a 
combination of the classification results of the individual 
regions, taking into account the specifications for the 
generalisation of ATKIS objects. The final decision about 
acceptance or rejection of an ATKIS object will be based on 
this combined classification according to the ATKIS object 
catalogue (AdV, 2010). 
We also hope to be able to detect other object classes with 
similar structural features such as vineyards and plantations. 
However, in this case, the image resolution would have to be 
adapted for the structural analysis, because the rows of plants 
only appear as parallel lines at a coarser resolution than 1 m. 
This future research would also have to determine the optimal 
scale for each object class. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
This work was supported by the German Federal Agency for 
Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). 
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