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In this paper, a new method for BAs extraction using the Sentinel-1 SAR is proposed, which includes two steps: (1) Candidate BAs are first selected as seeds from images that show high backscattering and obvious textural patterns, as characterized by image intensity, Getis-Ord index, and the variogram texture features; (2) region growing is iteratively implemented from these seed pixels to extract the BAs. Sentinel-1 data, with 5 \u00d7 20 m2 resolution, are selected over eight cities with various environmental settings around China, to validate the robustness of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method achieves higher detection accuracy and fewer commission errors compared with the intensity-based region growing and thresholding methods. An averaged accuracy of 96.5% in validation points of eight cities was achieved, which outperforms the GlobCover urban product in both urban and rural area, while fewer commission errors were achieved compared to Landsat data-based methods. Moreover, two polarizations (VV\/VH) and the averaged channel are compared for BAs extraction in areas with various environments. It turns out that improved results can be achieved using the averaged image of two polarizations in north China, while the VV image is better suited for BAs extraction in south. These findings indicate that operational BAs mapping over China, and even globally, is possible, since the Sentinel-1 data can provide images with global coverage.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10060874","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,5]],"date-time":"2018-06-05T06:25:52Z","timestamp":1528179952000},"page":"874","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Operational Built-Up Areas Extraction for Cities in China Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Han","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0088-8148","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"611","article-title":"Remote Sensing of Urban\/Suburban Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Attributes","volume":"65","author":"Jensen","year":"1999","journal-title":"Photogramm. 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