Urban density mapping of global megacities from polarimetric SAR images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 334-348

  Susaki, Junichi ^a,c   Kajimoto, Muneyoshi ^b   Kishimoto, Masaaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

^c Department of Global Engineering Faculty of Engineering Kyoto University ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Megacities; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; Polarization orientation angle; Urban density

Indexed keywords

MEGACITIES; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIZATION ORIENTATION ANGLES; URBAN DENSITY;

ALGORITHM; GIS; MAPPING METHOD; MEGACITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84909598682     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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