Scaling up to national/regional urban extent mapping using landsat data

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

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3710-3719

  Trianni, Giovanna ^a   Lisini, Gianni ^a   Angiuli, Emanuele ^a   Moreno, E A ^a   Dondi, Piercarlo ^a   Gaggia, Alessandro ^a   Gamba, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global mapping; Landsat; normalized difference spectral vector (NDSV); urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING; PHOTOMAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; GLOBAL MAPPING; GROUND TRUTH DATA; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; LANDSAT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL VECTOR; URBAN REMOTE SENSING;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION;

DATA SET; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDSAT; MAPPING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREA;

BRAZIL; CHINA; INDONESIA;

EID: 85027927802     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2398032     Document Type: Article

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