Small Area Population Estimation with High-Resolution Remote Sensing and Lidar

Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 183-193

  Wang, Le ^a   Cardenas, Jose Silvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment of four building detection methods pixel and object levels; Building detection method error maps, built through comparing detection mask from each method with reference building footprint layer in raster format; Data preprocessing, building extraction and land use classification raster layers, derived from Lidar point cloud and CIR photograph; Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP OLS) imagery for population estimation; Dempster Shafer method, for detecting buildings over entire study area; Goodness of fit of seven population estimation models; Population estimation uncertainty analysis calibrated models, using extracted buildings' layer and classified land use layers; Remote sensing, in estimating populations in large areas; Small area population estimation with high resolution remote sensing and lidar; Small area population estimation important task, attention from remote sensing community

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DECISION MAKING; HOUSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RASTERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEYS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BUILDING DETECTION; BUILDING EXTRACTION; CALIBRATED MODEL; DMSP-OLS; ERROR MAP; POPULATION ESTIMATIONS; STUDY AREAS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84886147347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979563.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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