Application of the Symbolic Machine Learning to Copernicus VHR Imagery: The European Settlement Map

This letter introduces the new European Settlement Map (ESM) production workflow, presents some indicatory results, and discusses the validation process. Unlike the previous ESM versions, the built-up (BU) extraction is realized through supervised learning (not only by means of image filtering and processing techniques) based on textural and morphological features. Input data are the Copernicus ve...