Information fusion for scene understanding from interferometric SAR data in urban environment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 9 PART I, 2003, Pages 1976-1985

  Quartulli, M ^a   Datcu, M ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian data fusion; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Scene understanding

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BAYESIAN DATA FUSION; BAYESIAN MACHINE LEARNING; BUILDING RECOGNITION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; INTERMAP DATA; SCENE UNDERSTANDING; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0142009644     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.814630     Document Type: Article

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