Spaceborne SAR data for global urban mapping at 30m resolution using a robust urban extractor

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-37

  Ban, Yifang ^a   Jacob, Alexander ^a   Gamba, Paolo ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

30m Resolution; ENVISAT ASAR; GLCM Textures; Global Urban Mapping; KTH Pavia Urban Extractor; Spaceborne SAR; Spatial Indices

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FORESTRY; MAPPING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEXTURES;

ENVISAT ASAR; KTH-PAVIA URBAN EXTRACTOR; SPACE-BORNE SAR; SPATIAL INDICES; URBAN MAPPING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84940007716     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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