Contributing to WUDAPT: A Local Climate Zone Classification of Two Cities in Ukraine

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

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1841-1853

  Danylo, Olha ^a   See, Linda ^a   Bechtel, Benjamin ^b   Schepaschenko, Dmitry ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GlobeLand30; Landsat; local climate zones (LCZs); OpenStreetMap (OSM); remote sensing; Ukraine; urban areas

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS;

ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POINTS OF INTEREST; URBAN LANDSCAPE; URBAN STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROTOCOLS; ZONE CLASSIFICATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE; PALEOCLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN AREA;

KIEV [UKRAINE]; LVIV; UKRAINE;

EID: 84979493343     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2539977     Document Type: Article

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