The global urban footprint - Processing status and cross comparison to existing human settlement products

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4816-4819

  Felbier, Andreas ^a   Esch, Thomas ^a   Heldens, Wieke ^a   Marconcini, Mattia ^a   Zeidler, Julian ^a   Roth, Achim ^a   Klotz, Martin ^a   Wurm, Michael ^a   Taubenböck, Hannes ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

accuracy assessment; classification; global human settlement layer; urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SURVEYING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; TANDEM-X; URBAN REMOTE SENSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84911447652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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