Features extraction from SAR images of urban scenes represents one of the most interesting subjects of research in the field of remote sensing; new, more adequate and specialised backscattering and radar models for features retrieval are studied and strongly required. In this paper, a synoptic view of three different approaches to the problem, accounting for the dynamism and complexity of urban...

8 Monitoring urban development in a given region provides valuable in9 formation to researchers. Currently available, very high resolution satellite 10 images can be used for this purpose. However, manually monitoring land 11 development using these large and complex images is time consuming and 12 prone to errors. To handle this problem, an automated system is needed to 13 measure development ...

BACKGROUND In active living research, measures used to characterize the built environment have been mostly gross qualities such as neighborhood density and park access. This project has developed operational definitions and measurement protocols for subtler urban design qualities believed to be related to walkability. METHODS Methods included: 1) recruiting an expert panel; 2) shooting video ...

the concepts of democracy have been around for centuries in different fields of human sciences. however, in most of these fields the idealistic and far-fetched features attributed to democracy have not been manipulated yet. it should be mentioned that there have been only a few serious attempts to find proper go-between elements, which could make such a concept as comprehensible and tangible as...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Extended pruning Multi-scale textural analysis Neural networks QuickBird Urban land-use Very high-resolution panchromatic data WorldView-1 The successful launch of panchromatic WorldView-1 and the planned launch of WorldView-2 will make a major contribution towards the advancement of the commercial remote sensing industry by providing improved capabilities, more ...