Putting people in the picture: Combining big location-based social media data and remote sensing imagery for enhanced contextual urban information in Shanghai

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 62, Issue , 2017, Pages 99-112

  Jendryke, Michael ^a   Balz, Timo ^a,b   McClure, Stephen C ^a   Liao, Mingsheng ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuhan University   (China)

Author keywords

Geography; Remote sensing; Sina Weibo; Social media; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GEOGRAPHY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIAS; REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SINA-WEIBO; SOCIAL MEDIA; URBANIZATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGERY; LAND CLASSIFICATION; RASTER; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL MEDIA; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBANIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84994667364     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2016.10.004     Document Type: Article

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