Mapping Urban Slum Settlements Using Very High-Resolution Imagery and Land Boundary Data

Accurate mapping of slums is crucial for urban planning and management. This article proposes a machine learning, hierarchical object-based method to map slum settlements using very high-resolution (VHR) imagery and land boundary data to support slum upgrading. The proposed method is tested in Kings...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Trecia Kay-Ann Williams, Tao Wei, Xiaolin Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8920210/