Delineation of Urban footprints from TerraSAR-X data by analyzing speckle characteristics and intensity information

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 905-916

  Esch, T ^a   Thiel, Michael ^b   Schenk, Andreas ^c   Roth, A ^a   Muller A ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Built up area (BA); Object oriented image analysis; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X (TSX); Texture

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; BUILT-UP AREAS; HIGH POTENTIAL; INTENSITY INFORMATION; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT-ORIENTED IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR SATELLITES; SAR DATA; SEMI-AUTOMATED DETECTION; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRASAR-X; TERRASAR-X (TSX);

AGGLOMERATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TEXTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PIXEL; SATELLITE MISSION; SIR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 76349106166     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2037144     Document Type: Article

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