Texture-based identification of urban slums in Hyderabad, India using remote sensing data

Applied Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 660-667

  Kit, Oleksandr ^a   Lüdeke, Matthias ^a   Reckien, Diana ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyderabad India; Image classification; Informal settlements; Lacunarity; Line detection; Principal component analysis; Remote sensing; Slums

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING; VULNERABILITY;

ANDHRA PRADESH; HYDERABAD [ANDHRA PRADESH]; INDIA;

EID: 80051889291     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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