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This paper explores the potentiality of using the completed local binary pattern (CLBP) for the classification of an urbanized oasis area situated in southeastern Tunisia, in very high spatial resolution GeoEye imagery. To further improve the spatial information description derived by CLBP, which is successfully used in face recognition, we applied the multi-scale completed local binary pattern (MSCLBP) to classify the single-dated image. A supervised classification framework preceded by mean-shift segmentation is applied using the texture features alone and combined with the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). As the segmentation is a crucial step to obtain a good mapping, considerations are given to select the optimal combination of mean-shift input parameters, such as spatial radius and range radius. The results of this study indicate that MSCLBP outperforms the single-scale CLBP and the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) descriptors in the task of expressing the classes of interests.