SAR applications in human settlement detection, population estimation and urban land use pattern analysis: a status report

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-85

  Henderson, Floyd M ^a   Xia, Zong Guo ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HOUSING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LAND USE; MAPPING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; URBAN PLANNING;

POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN ANALYSIS; URBAN AREAS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0030736593     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.551936     Document Type: Article

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