The global urban footprint — Processing status and cross comparison to existing human settlement products

Author

Felbier, Andreas ; Esch, Thomas ; Heldens, Wieke ; Marconcini, Mattia ; Zeidler, Julian ; Roth, Achim ; Klotz, Martin ; Wurm, Michael ; Taubenbock, Hannes

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

4816

Lastpage

4819

Abstract

The main goal of the TanDEM-X mission (TDM) is the generation of a global digital elevation model (DEM). The global SAR dataset, which is made available in the context of the TDM, is also used to create a global human settlement layer, the Global Urban Footprint (GUF). This paper presents a first large area cross comparison between the Global Urban Footprint and existing human settlement products, which shows promising results with an achieved confidence of 95.86% Overall, 71.15% Producer´s and 85.22% User´s accuracy.

Keywords

demography; digital elevation models; geophysical techniques; TDM; TanDEM-X mission; global SAR dataset; global digital elevation model; global urban footprint; human settlement layer; human settlement products; producer accuracy; user accuracy; Accuracy; Buildings; Cities and towns; Europe; Fabrics; Soil; Time division multiplexing; accuracy assessment; classification; global human settlement layer; urban remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947572

Filename

6947572