Toward Global Automatic Built-Up Area Recognition Using Optical VHR Imagery

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

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 923-934

  Pesaresi, Martino ^a   Ehrlich, Daniele ^a   Caravaggi, Ivano ^a   Kauffmann, Mayeul ^a   Louvrier, Christophe ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global human settlement layer (GHSL); PANTEX; textural image classification; VHR satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; BUILT-UP AREAS; CO-OCCURRENCE; DATA SETS; EVALUATION STRATEGIES; GLOBAL LEVELS; GREY-LEVEL; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; IMAGE DATA COLLECTION; IMAGE INFORMATION; INPUT DATAS; LARGE CITIES; NOMINAL SCALE; PANTEX; QUICK BIRD; ROTATION INVARIANT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGES; TEXTURAL IMAGES; THRESHOLD LEVELS; VHR IMAGERY;

DATA VISUALIZATION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RADAR IMAGING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; IKONOS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; QUICKBIRD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SETTLEMENT PLANNING; THRESHOLD; WORLD CITY;

AVES;

EID: 83655181864     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2162579     Document Type: Article

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