Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
Proceedings of the International geosciences and remote sensing symposium 2007
Publication Date
Page Numbers
0000 to 281
Conference Name
IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium
Conference Location
Barcelona, Spain
Conference Date
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Abstract
The advent of high spatial resolution satellite imagery like Quick Bird (0.6 meter) and IKONOS (1 meter) has provided a new data source for high resolution urban land cover mapping. Extracting accurate urban regions from high resolution images has many applications and is essential to the population mapping efforts of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) LandScan population distribution program. This paper discusses an automated parallel algorithm that has been implemented on a high performance computing environment to extract urban regions from high resolution images using texture and spectral features
