DocumentCode
1742825
Title
Terrain modeling in synthetic aperture radar images using shape-from-shading
Author
Bors, Adrian G. ; Hancock, Edwin R. ; Wilson, Richard C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., York Univ., UK
Volume
1
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
798
Abstract
We introduce a new approach for recovering shape-from-shading (SFS) from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the terrain. Three contributions are proposed: 1) we show how the direction of surface normals is constrained by the geometry of the radar reflectivity cone; 2) we show how topographic features can be used as boundary constraints on the recovered surface normals; and 3) the resulting field of surface normals is smoothed using robust statistics
Keywords
image reconstruction; radar imaging; smoothing methods; statistical analysis; surface topography; synthetic aperture radar; SAR images; image recovering; radar reflectivity cone; shape-from-shading; smoothing method; statistical analysis; surface normals; synthetic aperture radar; terrain modelling; topographic features; Computer science; Equations; Geometry; Lighting; Radar imaging; Reflectivity; Robustness; Statistics; Surface topography; Synthetic aperture radar;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Barcelona
ISSN
1051-4651
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0750-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICPR.2000.905520
Filename
905520
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