A General Framework for Urban Area Extraction Exploiting Multiresolution SAR Data Fusion

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

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2009-2018

  Salentinig, Andreas ^a   Gamba, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multiresolution techniques; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); urban areas

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; EXTRACTION;

FUSION APPROACHES; FUSION TECHNIQUES; MULTI RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATE OF THE ART; URBAN AREAS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

BEIJING [CHINA]; BRAZIL; CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84979723768     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2546553     Document Type: Article

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