The vision of mapping the global urban footprint using the TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X mission

Urban and Regional Data Management, UDMS Annual 2011 - Proceedings of the Urban Data Management Society Symposium 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 243-251

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

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; GLOBAL MAPPING; HUMAN CIVILIZATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSORS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPATIAL DATA; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZED AREA;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RADAR IMAGING; TRACKING RADAR;

MAPPING;

EID: 84856722846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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