BBAuthors: Antumes, R.R.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2016)
The constant increase in population in conjunction with unplanned and irregular urban growth, typical problems in developing countries, can promote a rapid increase in population density and related public infrastructure demand that may be hard to bear with the available economic resources. Efficient monitoring of urban development is thus a key instrument for planners and public policy makers that have to cope with this scenario. This work aims at developing a tool to aid monitoring urban growth from very-high resolution remote sensing images, focussing on the integration of available open-source software and the application of OBIA methods. Specifically, we created a method for dete... 
