A detailed comparison between two fast approaches to urban extent extraction in VHR SAR images

2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gamba, Paolo ^a   Aldrighi, Massimilano ^a   Stasolla, Mattia ^a   Sirtori, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RANGES; GLOBAL MAPPING; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; RADAR FREQUENCIES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SAR SENSORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEXTURAL FEATURE;

FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 70350166986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URS.2009.5137592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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