Representation of block-based image features in a multi-scale framework for built-up area detection

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Hu, Zhongwen ^a   Li, Qingquan ^a   Zhang, Qian ^b   Wu, Guofeng ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Block based feature extraction; Built up area detection; Harris corner point; High spatial resolution image; Multi scale feature representation; Scale space theory

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BLOCK BASED; BUILT-UP AREA DETECTION; HARRIS CORNERS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; MULTI-SCALE FEATURES; SCALE-SPACE THEORY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84962480591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020155     Document Type: Article

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