Comparing urban impervious surface identification using landsat and high resolution aerial photography

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4942-4960

  Parece, Tammy E ^a   Campbell, James B ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution imagery; Impervious surfaces; Landsat; Landuse classification; Roanoke; Urban; Virginia

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; LANDSAT; LANDUSE CLASSIFICATIONS; ROANOKE; URBAN; VIRGINIA;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SURVEYS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84887527417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5104942     Document Type: Article

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