Mapping Slums with Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery: a Comparative Analysis of Multi-Spectral Data and Grey-level Co-occurrence Matrix Techniques

Agatha C. H. de Mattos, Gavin McArdle, Michela Bertolotto

The UN-Habitat estimates that over one billion people live in slums around the world. However, state-of-the-art techniques to detect the location of slum areas employ high-resoluti…