Big earth data analytics on Sentinel-1 and Landsat imagery in support to global human settlements mapping

• Published in: Big earth data Vol. 1; no. 1-2; pp. 118 - 144
• Main Authors: Corbane, Christina, Pesaresi, Martino, Politis, Panagiotis, Syrris, Vasileios, Florczyk, Aneta J., Soille, Pierre, Maffenini, Luca, Burger, Armin, Vasilev, Veselin, Rodriguez, Dario, Sabo, Filip, Dijkstra, Lewis, Kemper, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 22.12.2017
• Subjects: Big data; built-up surfaces; global human settlement layer; JRC earth observation and processing platform; Landsat; Sentinel-1

Continuous global-scale mapping of human settlements in the service of international agreements calls for massive volume of multi-source, multi-temporal, and multi-scale earth observation data. In this paper, the latest developments in terms of processing big earth observation data for the purpose o...