Abstract:This work presents the preliminary results of a joint enterprise aiming at the development of free open source software (FOSS) tools for very high resolution remote sensing (RS) image analysis (IA) at the global level. Specifically, the paper proposes a simple method for the detection of human settlements on RS images. The method relies on a model, which can be described in terms of few simple intuitive features related to the ontology of an urban area. In consequence, the method can be adjusted to different u… Show more
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