Object-based classification of urban areas using VHR imagery and height points ancillary data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2256-2276

  Salehi, Bahram ^a   Zhang, Yun ^a   Zhong, Ming ^a   Dey, Vivek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Misregistration; Multisource data; Object based classification; Transferability; Urban land cover; Very high resolution imagery

Indexed keywords

MISREGISTRATION; MULTISOURCE DATA; OBJECT BASED; TRANSFERABILITY; URBAN LAND COVER; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84868123768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4082256     Document Type: Article

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