A semi-automated object-based approach for landslide detection validated by persistent scatterer interferometry measures and landslide inventories

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1310-1336

  Hölbling, Daniel ^a   Füreder, Petra ^a   Antolini, Francesco ^b,c   Cigna, Francesca ^b,d   Casagli, Nicola ^b   Lang, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

landslide mapping; Object based image analysis (OBIA); Persistent scatterers (PS); radar interpretation; Validation

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDE MAPPING; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERSISTENT SCATTERERS; RADAR-INTERPRETATION; VALIDATION;

INTERFEROMETRY; SCATTERING;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84861449715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4051310     Document Type: Article

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