Quantifying the physical composition of urban morphology throughout wales based on the time series (1989-2011) analysis of landsat TM/ETM+ images and supporting GIS data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 11731-11752

  Scott, Douglas ^a   Petropoulos, George P ^a   Moxley, Janet ^b   Malcolm, Heath ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impervious surface estimation; Landsat; Multi temporal imagery; Object orientated method; Wales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920082341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61211731     Document Type: Article

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