Remote sensing-based retrieval of ground impervious surfaces

Yaogan Xuebao/Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1270-1289

  Xu, Hanqiu ^a   Wang, Meiya ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological environment; Image processing; Impervious surface; Information retrieval; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAND USE; SOILS;

DYNAMIC INFORMATION; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84992315793     PISSN: 10074619     EISSN: 20959494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20166210     Document Type: Article

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