Automatic Feature-Based Geometric Fusion of Multiview TomoSAR Point Clouds in Urban Area

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

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 953-965

  Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Point cloud fusion; SAR tomography (TomoSAR); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

DEFORMATION MONITORING; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); POINT CLOUD; POINT CORRESPONDENCE; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); TERRASAR-X; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84926466999     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2361430     Document Type: Article

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