BREC: The Built-up area RECognition tool

Author

Gamba, Paolo ; Acqua, Fabio Dell ; Lisini, Gianni

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents the overall structure and some examples of use for BREC (Building RECognition tool) software, developed by the Remote Sensing Group at the University of Pavia. The software allows detecting the characteristics of built-up areas at different scales, from urban extent delineation to individual building recognition, depending on the remote sensing data in input and their spatial resolution. A set of different tools for classification, feature extraction, and data fusion at the feature level have been developed and can be suitably combined to achieve the best results. All of them have been optimized for the analysis of urban areas and human settlements, and can be applied to both optical and radar images.

Keywords

building; feature extraction; geophysical techniques; geophysics computing; image classification; remote sensing; sensor fusion; BREC; Building RECognition tool software; Remote Sensing Group; University of Pavia; building recognition; built-up areas; data fusion; feature extraction; human settlements; image classification; optical images; radar images; remote sensing; urban extent delineation; Buildings; Character recognition; Feature extraction; Humans; Image analysis; Laser radar; Remote sensing; Software tools; Spatial resolution; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Urban Remote Sensing Event, 2009 Joint

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3460-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3461-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URS.2009.5137593

Filename

5137593