Subpixel land-cover classification for improved urban area estimates using landsat

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 5763-5792

  Maclachlan, Andrew ^a   Roberts, Gareth ^a   Biggs, Eloise ^b   Boruff, Bryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE; PIXELS;

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

URBAN GROWTH;

ENERGY BALANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; ORTHOPHOTO; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85037525615     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1346403     Document Type: Article

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