A novel approach for identifying urban built-up area boundaries using high-resolution remote-sensing data based on the scale effect

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Zhou, Yi ^a   Tu, Mingguang ^a,b   Wang, Shixin ^a   Liu, Wenliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Boundary identification; Hexagonal vector grid; High resolution remote sensing data; Impervious surfaces; Natural breaks; Scale effect; Urban built up area

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046413075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi7040135     Document Type: Article

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