Unsupervised high-resolution global monitoring of urban settlements

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4241-4244

  Marconcini, Mattia ^a   Esch, Thomas ^a   Felbier, Andreas ^a   Heldens, Wieke ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global mapping; Settlements pattern; TanDEM X; TerraSAR X; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894235399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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