Towards automatic SAR-optical stereogrammetry over urban areas using very high resolution imagery

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 138, Issue , 2018, Pages 218-231

  Qiu, Chunping ^a   Schmitt, Michael ^a   Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Optical images; Remote sensing; Stereogrammetry; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; DIGITAL STORAGE; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; MULTI-SENSOR DATA; OPTICAL IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STEREOGRAMMETRY; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA; WORLDVIEW;

EID: 85042852526     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.12.006     Document Type: Article

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