Determining the Relationship between Census Data and Spatial Features Derived from High-Resolution Imagery in Accra, Ghana

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1970-1977

  Sandborn, Avery ^a   Engstrom, Ryan N ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Census data; feature extraction; high resolution satellite imagery; image texture analysis; land cover; population characteristics; spatial features; texture; urban areas

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE TEXTURE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS; TEXTURES; URBAN PLANNING;

CENSUS DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL FEATURES; URBAN AREAS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CENSUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

ACCRA; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA;

EID: 84969331982     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2519843     Document Type: Article

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