Backscattering and Statistical Information Fusion for Urban Area Mapping Using TerraSAR-X Data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 718-730

  Chaabouni Chouayakh, Houda ^a   Datcu, Mihai ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backscattering information; high resolution TerraSAR X data; information fusion; semantic categorization and retrieval; statistical information; urban areas interpretation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MAPPING; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION FUSION TECHNIQUES; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; MAN-MADE STRUCTURES; SAR SENSORS; SCATTERING RESPONSE; SEMANTIC CATEGORIZATION; SEMANTIC CATEGORIZATION AND RETRIEVAL; SEMI-AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION; SPACEBORNE SAR; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN STRUCTURE;

BACKSCATTERING; INFORMATION FUSION; MAPPING; SEMANTICS;

SATELLITES;

BACKSCATTER; EOS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 78650425781     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2059695     Document Type: Article

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