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The multivariate textures are separately extracted from multispectral data using a multivariate variogram with different distance measures, i.e., Euclidean, Mahalanobis and spectral angle distances. The multivariate textures and the spectral bands are then combined for urban built-up area extraction. Because the urban built-up area is the only target class, a one-class classifier, one-class support vector machine, is used. For comparison, the classical gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) is also used to extract image texture. The proposed method was evaluated using bi-temporal Landsat TM\/ETM+ data of two megacity areas in China. Results demonstrated that the proposed method outperformed the use of spectral information alone and the joint use of the spectral information and the GLCM texture. In particular, the inclusion of multivariate variogram textures with spectral angle distance achieved the best results. The proposed method provides an effective way of extracting urban built-up areas from Landsat series images and could be applicable to other applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs6087339","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,8,6]],"date-time":"2014-08-06T11:04:13Z","timestamp":1407323053000},"page":"7339-7359","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":78,"title":["Urban Built-Up Area Extraction from Landsat  TM\/ETM+ Images Using Spectral Information  and Multivariate Texture"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Jun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, School of Earth and Space Sciences, and Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration and 3S Application, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4989-9892","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peijun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, School of Earth and Space Sciences, and Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration and 3S Application, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8404-0530","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinfei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London,  ON N6A 3K7, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,8,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"74","DOI":"10.1126\/science.264.5155.74","article-title":"Growth of continental-scale metro-agro-plexes, regional ozone pollution, and world food production","volume":"264","author":"Chameides","year":"1994","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"218","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2004.06.015","article-title":"Landsat urban mapping based on a combined spectral-spatial methodology","volume":"92","author":"Guindon","year":"2004","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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