Multiscale quality assessment of global human settlement layer scenes against reference data using statistical learning

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1636-1647

  Ouzounis, Georgios K ^a   Syrris, Vasileios ^b   Pesaresi, Martino ^b  

^a DigitalGlobe Inc   (United States)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big data analytics; CSL model; Human settlements; Linear regression; PANTEX; Settlement metrics

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

CSL MODEL; DATA ANALYTICS; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; PANTEX; SETTLEMENT METRICS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84885591701     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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