Improving Urban Impervious Surface Mapping by Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis and Using Spectral Indices

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 577-586

  Fan, Fenglei ^a   Fan, Wei ^a   Weng, Qihao ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ERRORS; MAPPING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MIXTURES; PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOILS; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLS;

IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; LINEAR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 84958835251     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2015.1112730     Document Type: Article

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