Image based characterization of formal and informal neighborhoods in an urban landscape

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

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1164-1176

  Graesser, Jordan ^a   Cheriyadat, Anil ^a   Vatsavai, Ranga Raju ^a   Chandola, Varun ^a   Long, Jordan ^b   Bright, Eddie ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Formal; high resolution; image features; informal; urban

Indexed keywords

FORMAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE FEATURES; INFORMAL; URBAN;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; REMOTE SENSING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CLASSIFICATION; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING; URBANIZATION;

BOLIVIA; LA PAZ [BOLIVIA];

EID: 84864741147     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2190383     Document Type: Article

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