SAR-Based Urban Extents Extraction: From ENVISAT to Sentinel-1

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

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 2683-2691

  Lisini, Gianni ^a   Salentinig, Andreas ^a   Du, Peijun ^b   Gamba, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Envisat ASAR; global scale; Sentinel 1; urban area extraction

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; ROUTERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVISAT ASAR; EUROPE; GLOBAL SCALE; SENTINEL-1; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREAS;

URBAN GROWTH;

BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; ENVISAT; MAPPING METHOD; SENTINEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

EUROPE;

EID: 85040040079     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2782180     Document Type: Article

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