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

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

2920

Lastpage

2923

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651736

Filename

5651736