Title :
Building height extraction via a deterministic approach using a TerraSAR-X data stack
Author :
Liu, Kang ; Balz, Timo ; Liao, Mingsheng
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Inf. Eng. in Surveying, Mapping & Remote Sensing, Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
A method for building height determination via a deterministic approach is tested using three TerraSAR-X images from Barcelona, Spain. Using this method, the height of a building wall can be determined based on the strength of the double-bounce backscattering. The approach requires knowledge of the material properties of the measured building wall and the area in near range of the building wall. For certain test buildings the approach provides good results, while for other buildings the results are erroneous.
Keywords :
backscatter; building materials; feature extraction; object detection; synthetic aperture radar; Barcelona; Spain; TerraSAR-X data stack; building height extraction; deterministic approach; double-bounce backscattering; material properties; Backscatter; Buildings; Extraterrestrial measurements; Image reconstruction; Material properties; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); feature extraction; urban areas;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651736
