Spatiotemporal Fuzzy Clustering Strategy for Urban Expansion Monitoring Based on Time Series of Pixel-Level Optical and SAR Images

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

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1769-1779

  Li, Shuang ^a   Wang, Yafei ^b,c   Chen, Peipei ^d   Xu, Xinliang ^b   Cheng, Chengqi ^a   Chen, Bo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d China Land Surveying and Planning Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy information granulation; optical synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image time series; pixel level; spatiotemporal fuzzy clustering (STFC); urban expansion

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLUSTERING STRATEGY; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; FUZZY CLUSTERING METHOD; FUZZY INFORMATION GRANULATION; MONITORING RESULTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURES;

RADAR IMAGING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CHENGDU; CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 85013249563     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2657607     Document Type: Article

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