Population estimation of urban residential communities using remotely sensed morphologic data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1111-1115

  Xie, Yanhua ^a   Weng, Anthea ^b   Weng, Qihao ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Terre Haute North High School   (United States)

Author keywords

Building classification; fine scale population estimation; heterogeneous region; LiDAR; urban morphology

Indexed keywords

APARTMENT HOUSES; DECISION TREES; EXTRACTION; HOUSES; HOUSING; OPTICAL RADAR; POPULATION STATISTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS REGION; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NONRESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; POPULATION ESTIMATIONS; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 85027925171     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2385597     Document Type: Article

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