Fusion of WorldView-2 Stereo and Multitemporal TerraSAR-X Images for Building Height Extraction in Urban Areas

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1795-1799

  Xu, Yong ^a   Ma, Peifeng ^a   Ng, Edward ^a   Lin, Hui ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Building height; object based fusion; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; IMAGE PROCESSING; RADAR; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILDING FOOTPRINT; BUILDING HEIGHT; HEIGHT RETRIEVAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES; OBJECT BASED; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES; SATELLITE IMAGES; WORLDVIEW-2;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85027934578     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2427738     Document Type: Article

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