From land cover-graphs to urban structure types

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 584-609

  Walde, Irene ^a,b   Hese, Sören ^a,b   Berger, Christian ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

adjacency graphs; land cover; land use; urban; urban structure types

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84895067941     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.865189     Document Type: Article

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