Damage assessment in townships using VHSR data the effect of Operation Murambatsvina / Restore Order in Harare, Zimbabwe

2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, URS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schöpfer, Elisabeth ^a   Tiede, Dirk ^a   Lang, Stefan ^a   Zeil, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING;

INFORMAL BUSINESSES; INFORMATION DELIVERY; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION (VHSR);

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 34648816514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URS.2007.371846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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