Application of a normalized difference impervious index (NDII) to extract urban impervious surface features based on Landsat TM images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1055-1069

  Wang, Zhaoqi ^a   Gang, Chencheng ^a   Li, Xueling ^b   Chen, Yizhao ^a   Li, Jianlong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES;

URBAN GROWTH;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; POPULATION GROWTH; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 84923581139     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1007250     Document Type: Article

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