Characterization of facade regularities in high-resolution SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2727-2737

  Auer, Stefan ^a   Gisinger, Christoph ^a   Tao, Junyi ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grouping; high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR); pattern recognition; simulation; spectral analysis; TerraSAR X; urban

Indexed keywords

FACADES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GROUPING; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SIMULATION; TERRASAR-X; URBAN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84921021837     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2364076     Document Type: Article

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