Building footprint extraction using dual-aspect high-resolution synthetic aperture radar images in urban areas

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Fengli ^a   Liu, Lu ^b   Shao, Yun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Building footprint extraction; dual aspect; Dempster Shafer theory; Fusion; Highresolution synthetic aperture radar; Hough transform; Markov random fields models

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUSION REACTIONS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILDING FOOTPRINT; DEMPSTER SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS MODELS; REGION GROWING METHODS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84898780723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.6.063599     Document Type: Article

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