Title
Scaling up to National/Regional Urban Extent Mapping Using Landsat Data
Abstract
This paper describes a methodology to extract a consistent human settlement extent layer using Landsat data and its implementation in the Google Earth Engine platform. The approach allows the extraction of human settlement extents by means of the existing Landsat 5 and 7 data sets, allowing to check their evolution at 30-m spatial resolution. Since human settlements are the main proxy to people geographical distribution and to building locations, this layer may serve as a mean to disaggregate people/building counts at the regional/national level. The approach is tested in several parts of the world against existing ground truth data at the same spatial resolution in Brazil and China, as well as against extents manually extracted from VHR data in three different geographical areas: 1) Brazil; 2) South East China; and 3) Indonesia.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2398032
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of  
Keywords
Field
DocType
global mapping,landsat,normalized difference spectral vector (ndsv),urban remote sensing,remote sensing,earth,land use,vectors,spatial resolution,china,satellites
Proxy (climate),Data set,Satellite,Remote sensing,China,Ground truth,Human settlement,Scaling,Image resolution,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.73
5
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giovanna Trianni19010.92
Gianni Lisini220721.99
e angiuli3233.13
e a moreno470.73
Piercarlo Dondi5188.28
Alessandro Gaggia671.07
Paolo Gamba768292.97