Urban area extent extraction in spaceborne HR and VHR data using multi-resolution features

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 18337-18352

  Iannelli, Gianni Cristian ^a   Lisini, Gianni ^b   Dell’Acqua, Fabio ^a   Feitosa, Raul Queiroz ^c   da Costa, Gilson Alexandre Ostwald Pedro ^c   Gamba, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia (IUSS)   (Italy)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Feature fusion; Multi resolution processing; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVATION DATA; FEATURE FUSION; MULTI-RESOLUTION FEATURE; MULTI-RESOLUTION PROCESSING; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; TECHNICAL LITERATURE; URBAN AREAS;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 84908537810     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s141018337     Document Type: Article

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