Normalization of TanDEM-X DSM data in urban environments with morphological filters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4348-4362

  Geiß, Christian ^a   Wurm, Michael ^a   Breunig, Markus ^a   Felbier, Andreas ^a   Taubenböck, Hannes ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital surface models (DSM); digital terain models (DTM); morphological filters; TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LANDFORMS; PIXELS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; URBAN PLANNING;

COMPLEX URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; DIGITAL TERAIN MODELS (DTM); INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS; MULTI-STEP PROCEDURES; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; TANDEM-X;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

AUTOMATION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ERROR CORRECTION; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TANDEM-X; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

GERMANY; IZMIR [TURKEY]; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; TURKEY; WUPPERTAL;

EID: 84926300319     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2396195     Document Type: Article

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