Facade reconstruction using multiview spaceborne TomoSAR point clouds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3541-3552

  Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a,b   Shahzad, Muhammad ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

4 D city model; Facade reconstruction; point cloud; TerraSAR X; tomographic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) inversion (TomoSAR)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

CITY MODEL; DEFORMATION MONITORING; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPOTLIGHTS; POINT CLOUD; POSITIONING ACCURACY; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; TERRASAR-X; TOMOGRAPHIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

FACADES;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BUILDING; DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84896400409     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2273619     Document Type: Article

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