Mapping slums using spatial features in Accra, Ghana

2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event, JURSE 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Engstrom, Ryan ^a   Sandborn, Avery ^a   Yu, Qin ^a   Burgdorfer, Jason ^a   Stow, Douglas ^b   Weeks, John ^b   Graesser, Jordan ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; HOUSING; MAPS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; POPULATION DENSITIES; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL FEATURES; SUPPORT REGIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84938851025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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