Large-area settlement pattern recognition from Landsat-8 data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 119, Issue , 2016, Pages 294-308

  Wieland, Marc ^a   Pittore, Massimiliano ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Landsat 8; Machine learning; Object based image analysis; Settlements

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL ASIA; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; SETTLEMENTS; URBAN STRUCTURE TYPES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MACHINE LEARNING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIPELINE; SATELLITE DATA; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

CENTRAL ASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; KYRGYZSTAN; TAJIKISTAN; UZBEKISTAN;

EID: 84976416964     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.06.010     Document Type: Article

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