Are we in boswash yet? A multi-source geodata approach to spatially delimit urban corridors

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Georg, Isabel ^a   Blaschke, Thomas ^a   Taubenböck, Hannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fuzzy boundaries; Pixel based classification; Remote sensing; Spatial analysis; Urban areas; Urban corridor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041621102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi7010015     Document Type: Article

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