Automated subpixel surface water mapping from heterogeneous urban environments using Landsat 8 OLI imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Xie, Huan ^a   Luo, Xin ^a   Xu, Xiong ^a   Pan, Haiyan ^a   Tong, Xiaohua ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Endmember selection; Landsat 8 OLI; Subpixel classification; Urban; Water mapping

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; MIXTURES; PHOTOMAPPING; PIXELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS; URBAN PLANNING;

ENDMEMBER SELECTION; LANDSAT; SUB-PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; URBAN; WATER MAPPING;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 85019663871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8070584     Document Type: Article

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