Combining high-resolution optical and insar features for height estimation of buildings with flat roofs

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5840-5854

  Wegner, Jan Dirk ^a   Ziehn, Jens R ^b   Soergel, Uwe ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data fusion; geometric modeling; interferometry; least squares methods; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); urban areas

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DATA FUSION; ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; ROOFS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GEOMETRIC MODELING; HEIGHTS OF BUILDINGS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LEAST SQUARES ADJUSTMENTS; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; URBAN AREAS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILDING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84900803599     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2293513     Document Type: Article

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