Title :
Airport detection and runway recognition in SAR images
Author :
Pi, Yiming ; Fan, Luhong ; Yang, Xiaobo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EE, Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel approach to the detection of airport runway in SAR imagery, which combines a region-based method and a Hough transform analysis stage using contextual information to identify suitable signatures. For the recognition of runway, the points are grouped using a Hough transform to find potential runway; finally, The result of this procedure is the fast and accurate identification of airfield runways. Recognition results on high resolution SAR images are given.
Keywords :
Hough transforms; airports; image recognition; radar detection; radar imaging; radar resolution; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Hough transform analysis; airfield runways; airport runway detection; contextual information; high resolution SAR images; region-based method; runway recognition; Airports; Character recognition; Image recognition; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Radar detection; Roads; Space technology; Statistics; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7929-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1295344
