A new approach to collapsed building extraction using RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR imagery

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 677-681

  Li, Xinwu ^a   Guo, Huadong ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Chen, Xiao ^b   Liang, Lei ^a  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collapsed building; Earthquake; H method; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR)

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSED BUILDINGS; DECISION MAKING SUPPORT; EARTHQUAKE DISASTER; HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGERY; LARGE-SCALE EARTHQUAKES; NEAR-REAL TIME; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIZATION CORRELATION; QINGHAI PROVINCE; RADARSAT-2; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; URBAN DISASTER;

EARTHQUAKES; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84862826983     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2178392     Document Type: Article

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