Fast and efficient urban extent extraction using ASAR wide swath mode data

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

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2184-2195

  Gamba, Paolo ^a   Lisini, Gianni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ASAR wide swath mode data; global mapping; SAR; urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERED POWER; BUILT-UP STRUCTURES; CLIMATE CHANGE MODELING; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; GLOBAL MAPPING; SAR; URBAN REMOTE SENSING; WIDE SWATH MODES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MAPPING; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

POPULATION STATISTICS;

MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84884815527     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2235410     Document Type: Article

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