Mapping built-up areas from multitemporal interferometric SAR images - A segment-based approach

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 701-714

  Matikainen, Leena ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Engdahl, Marcus E ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CORRELATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTOMAPPING;

AUTOMATIC MAPPING; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; SAR IMAGES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

DATA SET; ERS-1; ERS-2; IMAGERY; INTERFEROMETRY; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33745196039     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.72.6.701     Document Type: Article

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