Employing spatial metrics in urban land-use/land-cover mapping: Comparing the Getis and Geary indices

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1403-1415

  Myint, Soe W ^a   Wentz, Elizabeth A ^a   Purkis, Sam J ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GEARY'S C; GETIS INDEX (GI); IKONOS IMAGERY; SPECTRAL INFORMATION;

LAND USE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IKONOS; INDEX METHOD; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MAPPING METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; URBAN SITE;

EID: 36749075515     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.73.12.1403     Document Type: Article

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