Automatic SAR simulation technique for object identification in complex urban scenarios

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 994-1003

  Tao, Junyi ^a   Auer, Stefan ^b   Palubinskas, Gintautas ^a   Reinartz, Peter ^a   Bamler, Richard ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geocoding; high resolution synthetic aperture radar; LiDAR; SAR interpretation; SAR simulation; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GEO CODING; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SAR INTERPRETATION; SAR SIMULATION; TERRASAR-X;

RADAR IMAGING;

LIDAR; RADAR IMAGERY; SIMULATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; MUNICH;

EID: 84897112741     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2275928     Document Type: Article

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