Road network extraction in VHR SAR images of urban and suburban areas by means of class-aided feature-level fusion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1294-1296

  Hedman, Karin ^a   Stilla, Uwe ^a   Lisini, Gianni ^b   Gamba, Paolo ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Markov random field (MRF); Rapid mapping; Road extraction; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX URBAN AREA; FEATURE LEVEL; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; NETWORK OPTIMIZATION; RAPID MAPPING; ROAD EXTRACTION; ROAD NETWORK EXTRACTION; SAR IMAGES; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN SCENES; URBAN-RURAL; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

RURAL AREAS; SATELLITES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING METHOD; NETWORK ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; RURAL AREA; SUBURBAN AREA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA;

EID: 77957933896     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2025123     Document Type: Article

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