Monitoring urban sprawl and its trends with EO data. UrbEx, a prototype national service from a WWF-ESA joint effort

2nd GRSS/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas, URBAN 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 245-248

  Castracane, P ^a   Iavarone, F ^a   Mica, S ^a   Sottile, E ^a   Vignola, C ^a   Arino, O ^b   Cataldo, M ^b   Fernandez Prieto D ^b   Guidotti, G ^c   Masullo, A ^c   Pratesi, I ^c  

^a Advanced Computer Systems Srl   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^c European Policy Office   (Italy)

Author keywords

Land cover classification; multi sensor and multi temporal data analysis; Urban growth monitoring

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; INFORMATION SERVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GROWTH MONITORING; ITALIAN COMPANIES; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA ANALYSIS; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; URBAN EXPANSION;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84944876028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DFUA.2003.1219997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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