A novel technique based on the combination of labeled co-occurrence matrix and variogram for the detection of built-up areas in high-resolution SAR images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3857-3878

  Li, Na ^a   Bruzzone, Lorenzo ^b   Chen, Zengping ^a   Liu, Fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Built up area; Fuzzy sets; Grey level co occurrence matrix (GLCM); Labeled co occurrence matrix (LCM); Remote sensing; Semivariogram; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; REMOTE SENSING; TEXTURES;

BUILT-UP AREAS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX TECHNIQUES; CO-OCCURRENCE-MATRIX; GREY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXES; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84901486959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6053857     Document Type: Article

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