Automatic detection and reconstruction of building radar footprints from single VHR SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 935-952

  Ferro, Adamo ^a   Brunner, Dominik ^a   Bruzzone, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building detection; Building reconstruction; Production system; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas; Very high spatial resolution (VHR)

Indexed keywords

BUILDING DETECTION; BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; URBAN AREAS; VERY-HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

BUILDINGS; DAMAGE DETECTION; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; REMOTE SENSING; ROOFS; SATELLITES; SEMANTICS; TRACKING RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BUILDING; COSMO-SKYMED; DAMAGE; DETECTION METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; NATURAL DISASTER; RADAR IMAGERY; RECONSTRUCTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84872938940     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2205156     Document Type: Article

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