Comparison of object-based image analysis approaches to mapping new buildings in Accra, Ghana using multi-temporal quickbird satellite imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2707-2726

  Tsai, Yu Hsin ^a   Stow, Douglas ^a   Weeks, John ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; ENVI feature extraction; Feature analyst; New building delineation; Quickbird

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; BACKGROUND OBJECTS; BIVARIATE; CHANGE DETECTION; COMPARISON METHODS; DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES; FEATURE ANALYST; FEATURE DELINEATION; FEATURE DETECTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LAND COVER; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NEW BUILDING DELINEATION; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; POST CLASSIFICATION; QUICKBIRD; QUICKBIRD SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGE DATAS; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; SOFTWARE-BASED; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

ECONOMICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84856691598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3122707     Document Type: Article

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