Extraction and geometrical accuracy of double-bounce lines in high resolution SAR images

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1071-1080

  Wegner, Jan Dirk ^a   Auer, Stefan ^b   Soergel, Uwe ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILDING EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRICAL ACCURACY; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; MAN MADE OBJECTS; SAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS; SUBPIXEL ACCURACY;

RADAR IMAGING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXEL; POLYGON; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRA (SATELLITE); URBAN AREA;

EID: 78650882914     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.76.9.1071     Document Type: Review

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