Height retrieval of isolated buildings from single high-resolution SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2967-2979

  Guida, Raffaella ^a   Iodice, Antonio ^b   Riccio, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Inverse problems; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; APRIORI; BUILDING HEIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; HEIGHT RETRIEVAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; ISOLATED BUILDINGS; MAN-MADE STRUCTURES; MODEL BASED APPROACH; MODEL INACCURACY; RADAR RETURNS; SAR IMAGES; SIMULATION EXAMPLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; URBAN AREAS; URBAN SCENES;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MICROWAVE SENSORS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILDING; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; HEIGHT; INVERSE PROBLEM; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77953869941     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2041460     Document Type: Article

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