An “exclusion-inclusion” framework for extracting human settlements in rapidly developing regions of China from Landsat images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 186, Issue , 2016, Pages 286-296

  Li, Xuecao ^a   Gong, Peng ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

Global scale; Human settlements; Mask; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; MASKS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL SCALE; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; SIMILARITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEVELOPING WORLD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; JINGJINJI; YANGTZE DELTA; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84983525911     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.08.029     Document Type: Article

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