An automated and adaptable approach for characterizing and partitioning cities into urban structure types

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1796-1799

  Bochow, Mathras ^a   Taubenböck, Hannes ^b   Segl, Karl ^a   Kaufmann, Hermann ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature selection; Spatial features; Urban structure types

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING DATA; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SPATIAL FEATURES; URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS; URBAN STRUCTURE TYPES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 78650912313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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