Human settlements: A global challenge for EO data processing and interpretation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 570-581

  Gamba, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data fusion; urban areas; urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; EARTH OBSERVATION DATA; MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION; OBJECT CHARACTERIZATION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; URBAN AREA MONITORING; URBAN AREAS; URBAN REMOTE SENSING;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 84874548105     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2189089     Document Type: Article

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