Retrieving urban areas on Google earth images: Application to towns of West Africa

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5867-5877

  Mering, Catherine ^a   Baro, Johanna ^a   Upegui, Erika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC; GEOGRAPHICAL DATABASE; GREY-LEVEL IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS; SPATIAL DELIMITATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEPWISE PROCESSING; VISUAL QUALITIES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

DATABASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREA;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 78649894978     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.512311     Document Type: Article

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