Coarse-to-fine approach for urban area interpretation using terraSAR-X data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-82

  Chaabouni Chouayakh, Houda ^a   Datcu, Mihai ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Contextual knowledge; Fusion between object extractors; Linear features detection; Segmentation; TerraSAR X data; Urban area interpretation

Indexed keywords

COARSE-TO-FINE; CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION; LAS VEGAS; LINEAR FEATURE; LINEAR STRUCTURES; SAR DATA; SEMI-AUTOMATIC TOOLS; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SATELLITES;

EID: 75449115788     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2020070     Document Type: Article

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