Junction-aware extraction and regularization of urban road networks in high-resolution SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2962-2971

  Negri, Matteo ^a,b   Gamba, Paolo ^a   Lisini, Gianni ^b   Tupin, Florence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Digitec Lecco Srl   (Italy)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

High resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Markov random fields (MRFs); Road network; Urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MULTISCALE DETECTION; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; ROAD JUNCTION; ROAD NETWORK; TECHNICAL LITERATURE; URBAN REMOTE SENSING; URBAN ROAD NETWORKS;

EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 36348942754     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.877289     Document Type: Article

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