Monitoring of global urbanization-time series analyses for mega cities based on optical and SAR data

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications, EORSA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 21-25

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

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global urbanization; Landsat; mega cities; TerraSAR X TanDEM X; urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL URBANIZATION; LANDSAT; MEGACITIES; TERRASAR-X; URBAN SPRAWL;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; OBSERVATORIES; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84866791557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EORSA.2012.6261127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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