Mapping green spaces in Bishkek-how reliable can spatial analysis be?

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1088-1103

  Hofmann, Peter ^a,b   Strobl, Josef ^a,b,c   Nazarkulova, Ainura ^c  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c Austria Central Asia Centre for GIScience   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

Classification reliability; Fuzzy classification; GeoEye; Object based image analysis; Urban green

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; ECOGNITION; FUZZY CLASS; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP; GEO-INFORMATION; GEOEYE; GREEN SPACES; GROUND TRUTH; NO REFERENCES; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT-BASED METHODS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERENCE DATA; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELIABILITY AND STABILITY; REMARKABLE IMPACT; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN GREEN;

FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052587612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3061088     Document Type: Article

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