Performance of building height estimation using high-resolution PolInSAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5870-5879

  Colin Koeniguer, Elise ^a   Trouvé, Nicolas ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

Author keywords

Coherence optimization; interferometry; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); three dimensional rendering; urban

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SEPARATION; POLARIMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION; ELEVATION ESTIMATIONS; GENERALIZED COHERENCES; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; STATISTICAL MODELING; URBAN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BARE SOIL; BUILDING; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84900561934     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2293605     Document Type: Article

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