An object extraction approach for impervious surface classification with very-high-resolution imagery

Professional Geographer

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 250-264

  Miller, Jennifer Elizabeth ^a   Nelson, Stacy A C ^b   Hess, George R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Feature Analyst; GIS; Impervious surface; Land cover

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; GIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WAKE COUNTY;

EID: 70049112344     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330120902742920     Document Type: Article

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