Tool NameK-Means Clustering for Grids
Tool ID1
Library IDimagery_classification
Version1.0
Author(s)O.Conrad (c) 2001

Description

This tool implements the K-Means cluster analysis for grids in two variants, iterative minimum distance (Forgy 1965) and hill climbing (Rubin 1967).

References

Forgy, E. (1965): Cluster analysis of multivariate data: efficiency vs. interpretability of classifications. Biometrics 21:768.

Rubin, J. (1967): Optimal classification into groups: an approach for solving the taxonomy problem. J. Theoretical Biology, 15:103-144.


Parameters

NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
Input
Featuresgrid list, inputGRIDS
Output
Clustersgrid, outputCLUSTER
Statisticstable, outputSTATISTICS
Elbow Statisticstable, outputELBOW_STATS
Options
MethodchoiceMETHODAvailable Choices:
[0] Minimum Distance (Forgy 1965)
[1] Hill Climbing (Rubin 1967)
[2] Minimum Distance + Hill Climbing
Default: 1
Number of Clustersinteger numberNCLUSTERMinimum: 2
Default: 10
Maximum Iterationsinteger numberMAXITERMaximum number of iterations, ignored if zero.Minimum: 0
Default: 10
Start PartitionchoiceINITIALIZEAvailable Choices:
[0] random
[1] periodical
[2] keep values
Default: 0
Start PartitionchoiceELBOW_INITAvailable Choices:
[0] random
[1] periodical
Default: 0
Elbow MethodchoiceELBOWAvailable Choices:
[0] no
[1] absolute
[2] change
[3] maximum distance
Default: 0
Threshold Percentagefloating point numberELBOW_ABSMinimum: 0.000000
Maximum: 50.000000
Default: 10.000000
Threshold Percentagefloating point numberELBOW_CHGMinimum: 0.000000
Maximum: 50.000000
Default: 5.000000
NormalisebooleanNORMALISETake standardized normalise grids by standard deviation before clustering.Default: 0
Old VersionbooleanOLDVERSIONslower but memory savingDefault: 0