Mapping US urban extents from MODIS data using one-class classification method

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 10143-10163

  Wan, Bo ^a,b   Guo, Qinghua ^b   Fang, Fang ^a   Su, Yanjun ^b   Wang, Run ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b Merced   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; MODIS; One class; Remote sensing; Time series; Urban mapping

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE; MAPPING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; URBAN GROWTH;

DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM / OPERATIONAL LINESCAN SYSTEM; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; MODIS; ONE-CLASS; ONE-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; POSITIVE AND UNLABELED LEARNING; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; URBAN MAPPING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84939450356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70810143     Document Type: Article

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