Delineation and Classification of Urban Neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana, from Quickbird Imagery: Manual vs. Semi-automated Approaches

GeoJournal Library

Volumn 110, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-71

  Lippitt, Christopher D ^a   Stow, Douglas A ^b   Toure, Sory ^b   Vejraska, Milo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Informal Settlement; Local Knowledge; Neighborhood Boundary; Physical Landscape; Spatial Unit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974829255     PISSN: 09245499     EISSN: 22150072     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6732-4_4     Document Type: Chapter

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