Regional urban extent extraction using multi-sensor data and one-class classification

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7671-7694

  Zhang, Xiya ^a   Li, Peijun ^a   Cai, Cai ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS; Land surface temperature; NDVI; OCSVM; One class classification; Urban extent

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DMSP/OLS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NDVI; OCSVM; ONE-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; URBAN EXTENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84933544285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607671     Document Type: Article

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