Detection and feature extraction of bridges in airborne and spaceborne SAR image data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6749, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schulz, Karsten ^a   Cadario, Erich ^a   Gross, Hermann ^a   Hammer, Horst ^a   Thiele, Antje ^a   Thoennessen, Ulrich ^a   Soergel, Uwe ^b   Weydahl, Dan J ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bridges; Change detection; Geospatial intelligence; Infrastructure; SAR; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECOGNITION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHANGE DETECTION; GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE; SATELLITE SYSTEMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 40749098502     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.739074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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