Title :
Automated detection of road intersections from ERS-1 SAR imagery
Author :
Iisaka, Joji ; Sakurai-Amano, Takako ; Lukowski, Tom I.
Author_Institution :
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Location of road intersections were estimated automatically from ERS-1 single look SAR imagery using a Hough transform based approach. After applying a despeckle filtering which preserves small features in the SAR images, several practical methods to facilitate detection of peaks in a Hough space were developed
Keywords :
feature extraction; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; pattern recognition; radar applications; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ERS-1; Hough transform; SAR image; SAR imagery; automated detection; crossroads; despeckle filtering; feature extraction; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; pattern recognition; radar remote sensing; road intersection; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Automatic control; Error correction; Filtering; Filters; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Noise reduction; Remote sensing; Roads; Speckle;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International
Conference_Location :
Firenze
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2567-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520490
