Scale issues in remote sensing: A review on analysis, processing and modeling

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1768-1793

  Wu, Hua ^a,b   Li, Zhao Liang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Scale domain; Scale effects; Scale threshold; Scaling

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; PROCESSING AND MODELING; QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING; SCALE DOMAINS; SCALE EFFECTS; SCALE THRESHOLD; SCALING; TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE;

DATA PROCESSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 63849152745     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90301768     Document Type: Review

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