High-resolution urban land mapping in China from sentinel 1A/2 imagery based on Google Earth Engine

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2019, Pages

  Sun, Zhongchang ^a   Xu, Ru ^b   Du, Wenjie ^c   Wang, Lei ^a   Lu, Dengsheng ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Google earth engine (GEE); Optical and SAR data fusion; Sentinel imagery; Urban land mapping

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; ENGINES; EXTRACTION; MAPPING; ORBITS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GOOGLE EARTHS; LAND MAPPING; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MODIFIED NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX (MNDWI); MULTISPECTRAL INSTRUMENTS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SENTINEL IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 85064008400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11070752     Document Type: Article

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