Settlement detection and impervious surface estimation in the Mekong Delta using optical and SAR remote sensing data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3007-3019

  Leinenkugel, Patrick ^a   Esch, Thomas ^a   Kuenzer, Claudia ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Impervious surface; Settlement detection; SPOT 5; Support Vector Regression; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

AREA-WIDE; AUTOMATED DETECTION; BARE SOILS; BUILDING PROCESS; CHANGE DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE ESTIMATION; LAND COVER; MEAN ERRORS; MEKONG DELTA; OBJECT ORIENTED; PAN-SHARPENED; REFLECTANCE VALUES; SAR REMOTE SENSING; SELECTIVE MAPPING; SPOT-5; STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; SUB PIXELS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION MODELS; TERRASAR-X; TIME-PERIODS; TRAINING DATA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN LAND COVER;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ESTIMATION;

DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LAND COVER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; TOPOGRAPHY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 81355161463     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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