The combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. Geospatial object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) is a technique used to analyse remote-sensed images (K.-T. Chang 2014). Hay and Castilla in T. Blaschke, S. Lang, and G. J. Hay (2008) provide a formal definition of GEOBIA, conduct a SWOT analysis of its potential, and discuss its main tenets and plausible future.