Microwave and Multispectal Remote Sensing data for Monitoring Urban dynamics in Urumqi, China

[ABSTRACT]Multispectal remote sensing data has been widely used for land cover mapping as well as urban study. The mechanism of ground object recognition is based mainly on its spectral reflectance characteristics. However, in most cases, it has certain limitation of accuracy in ground objects recognition. SAR remote sensing data on the other hand supplies information on surface structure, texture patterns. To achieve the best result it is strongly required to combine both these data for the analysis.