Monitoring urbanization in mega cities from space

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 117, Issue , 2012, Pages 162-176

  Taubenbock H ^a   Esch, T ^a   Felbier, A ^a   Wiesner, M ^a   Roth, A ^a   Dech, S ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change detection; Image analysis; Landsat; Mega cities; TerraSAR X; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; LANDSAT; MEGACITIES; TERRASAR-X; URBANIZATION;

DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SATELLITES; SIGNAL DETECTION;

URBAN PLANNING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGGLOMERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT TYPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MEGACITY; PIXEL; POLITICAL CHANGE; POPULATION SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MEXICO CITY; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; TOKYO [KANTO]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855450513     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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