Defining the bull's eye: Satellite imagery-assisted slum population assessment in Hyderabad, India

Urban Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 413-424

  Kit, Oleksandr ^a   Lüdeke, Matthias ^a   Reckien, Diana ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyderabad; slum identification; urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CENSUS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

ANDHRA PRADESH; HYDERABAD [ANDHRA PRADESH]; INDIA;

EID: 84879197857     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2013.778665     Document Type: Article

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