Building height retrieval from VHR SAR imagery based on an iterative simulation and matching technique

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART2, 2010, Pages 1487-1504

  Brunner, Dominik ^a,b   Lemoine, Guido ^a   Bruzzone, Lorenzo ^b   Greidanus, Harm ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Building detection; Damage assessment; Height extraction; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas; Very high geometrical resolution images; Very high spatial resolution (VHR) SAR

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BUILDING DETECTION; DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; GEOMETRICAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREAS; VERY-HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

BUILDINGS; DAMAGE DETECTION; ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROOFS; SATELLITES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BUILDING; DAMAGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HEIGHT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUMERICAL METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA;

GERMANY;

EID: 77951294631     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2031910     Document Type: Article

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