Exploiting regular patterns to group persistent scatterers in urban areas

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

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4177-4183

  Schack, Lukas ^a   Soergel, Uwe ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lattice estimation; Pattern recognition; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; LATTICE THEORY; OBJECT DETECTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

NEW APPLICATIONS; OBJECT-BASED REPRESENTATION; PARAMETER-FREE METHODS; PERSISTENT SCATTERERS; REGULAR PATTERNS; REPETITIVE PATTERN; SCENE DESCRIPTION; SPECTRAL GRAPH THEORY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETECTION METHOD; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84920169967     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2322394     Document Type: Article

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