Enumeration of Dwellings in Darfur Camps From GeoEye-1 Satellite Images Using Mathematical Morphology

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-15

  Kemper, Thomas ^a   Pesaresi, Martino ^a   Soille, Pierre ^a   Jenerowicz, Malgorzata ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

Author keywords

Geo Eye; image analysis; image interpretation; informal settlements; mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

AREA-BASED; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GEO-EYE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION; INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS; MEAN ERRORS; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SATELLITE IMAGES; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

APARTMENT HOUSES; BUILDINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

CORRELATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79953090985     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2053700     Document Type: Article

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