Urban Impervious Surfaces Estimation from Optical and SAR Imagery: A Comprehensive Comparison

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

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 4010-4021

  Xu, Ru ^a   Zhang, Hongsheng ^a   Lin, Hui ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR); scale effects; urban impervious surface

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE ESTIMATION; SATELLITE DATA; TEXTURE INFORMATION; URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES;

RADAR IMAGING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; ENVISAT; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

BRAZIL; CHINA; GUANGDONG; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SAO PAULO [SAO PAULO (STT)]; SHENZHEN;

EID: 85020391652     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2706747     Document Type: Article

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