Towards an automated monitoring of human settlements in South Africa using high resolution SPOT satellite imagery

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 7W3, 2015, Pages 1389-1394

  Kemper, T ^a   Mudau, N ^b   Mangara, P ^b   Pesaresi, M ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Automated image information extraction; Informal settlements; Low cost housing; Settlement mapping; South Africa; Urbanization monitoring

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

AUTOMATED IMAGE INFORMATION EXTRACTION; AUTOMATED MONITORING; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; IMAGE INFORMATION; INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS; LOW-COST HOUSINGS; SETTLEMENT MAPPING; SOUTH AFRICA; URBANIZATION MONITORING; WORK-FLOWS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84930396967     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-7-W3-1389-2015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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