• DocumentCode
    711759
  • Title

    Mapping people distribution at very high resolution from remote sensing imagery and a priori coarse people counts

  • Author

    Gueguen, Lionel

  • Author_Institution
    Image Min. Product Dev. & Labs., DigitalGlobe Inc., Longmont, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    March 30 2015-April 1 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The paper presents a fast and fully automatic method for estimating people distribution maps at very high resolution (≥ 25 m) from VHR optical imagery. This method is implemented in the High-res Urban Globe (HUG) suite of tools developed at DigitalGlobe, Inc. The methods relies on the a priori knowledge of coarse people counts to train a model acting on building features extracted from VHR imagery. Experiments and results show the high fidelity of HUG population density estimate to detailed census data.
  • Keywords
    buildings (structures); feature extraction; geophysical image processing; image resolution; optical images; remote sensing; DigitalGlobe Inc; HUG population density estimation; VHR optical imagery; building feature extraction; high-res urban globe; people distribution mapping estimation; remote sensing imagery resolution; Buildings; Optical imaging; Sociology; Spatial resolution; Statistics; TV;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2015 Joint
  • Conference_Location
    Lausanne
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120473
  • Filename
    7120473