Robust extraction of urban land cover information from HSR multi-spectral and LiDAR data

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

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Berger, Christian ^a   Voltersen, Michael ^a   Hese, Oren ^a   Walde, Irene ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; data fusion; land cover; multi sensor; object based image analysis (OBIA); transferability; urban

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; LAND COVER; MULTI SENSOR; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS (OBIA); TRANSFERABILITY; URBAN;

DATA FUSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LIDAR; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84880924785     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2252329     Document Type: Article

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