Pattern-based accuracy assessment of an urban footprint classification using TerraSAR-X data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 278-282

  Taubenbock H ^a   Esch, T ^a   Felbier, A ^a   Roth, A ^a   Dech, S ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; image classification; pattern analysis; radar remote sensing; urban areas

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AREA-WIDE; CITY MODEL; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; ERROR MATRICES; INDONESIA; LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; REFERENCE DATA; STRIP-MAP MODE; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN LANDSCAPE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; RADAR; RATING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79952021565     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2069083     Document Type: Article

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