Extraction and three-dimensional reconstruction of isolated buildings in urban scenes from high-resolution optical and sar spaceborne images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3932-3946

  Sportouche, Hélène ^a   Tupin, Florence ^a   Denise, Léonard ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b THALES COMMUNICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Building detection; data fusion; footprint extraction; height estimation; high resolution (HR) images; Quickbird; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X; urban scenes

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CHAINS; DATA FUSION; EXTRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MAINTENANCE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BUILDING DETECTION; HEIGHT ESTIMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; QUICKBIRD; TERRASAR-X; URBAN SCENES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

BUILDING; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUICKBIRD; RECONSTRUCTION; SIR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA;

EID: 80053568555     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2132727     Document Type: Article

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