Accuracy assessment of Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) built-up products over China

Preliminary Assessment of the Global Urban Footprint and the Global Human Settlement Layer for the city of Milan

Two new global urban products have recently appeared: the Global Urban Footprint (GUF) and the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL). This paper evaluates the GUF and GHSL for the city of Milan, Italy through comparison with two European Union (EU) land use/cover reference products, namely the Urban Atlas and LUCAS. The results demonstrate that the GUF and GHSL are very similar to each other and...

Accuracy Assessment of Aster Global Dem over Turkey

The aim of this study is to analyze the accuracy of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) over Istanbul metropolitan city. Accuracy assessment was conducted by comparing ASTER GDEM with a reference DEM derived from 1/5.000-scaled topographic maps. The selected area has wide range of elevations since it covers coastal and mou...

Vgi in Automatic Information Retrieval from Big Rs Data

This paper describes how Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) can support automatic information retrieval (IR) from big remote sensing (RS) data on an example of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL)[1]. Here, the OpenStreetMap 1 (OSM) derived data are used within a satellite imagery processing framework at several stages of an information layer production. Although, we focus on built-up...

Buref – Producing a Global Reference Layer of Built-up by Integrating Population and Remote Sensing Data

Monitoring the Built-up Area Transformation Using Urban Index and Normalized Difference Built-up Index Analysis

Makassar is one of the metropolitan cities located in Indonesia which recently experiences massive an increased construction because of population growth. Mapping the spatial distribution and development of the built-up region is the best method that can use as an indicator to set the urban planning policy. The purpose of this study is to identify changes in land use and density in Makassar Cit...