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Radar Remote Sensing of Urban Areas

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Uwe Soergel

    1. Inst. Photogrammetrie und GeoInformation, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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  • This book is a unique collection of state-of-the art contributions by international remote sensing experts focussing on methodologies to extract information about urban areas from Synthetic Aperture Radar data
  • Very relevant questions related to mapping of urban areas are addressed in case studies, i.e., the detection of buildings and roads, traffic monitoring, surface deformation monitoring, and urban change
  • SAR data of satellite and airborne sensors carriers are comprised
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing (RDIP, volume 15)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Review of Radar Remote Sensing on Urban Areas

    • Uwe Soergel
    Pages 1-47

  3. Rapid Mapping Using Airborne and Satellite SAR Images

    • Fabio Dell’Acqua, Paolo Gamba
    Pages 49-68

  4. Feature Fusion Based on Bayesian Network Theory for Automatic Road Extraction

    • Uwe Stilla, Karin Hedman
    Pages 69-86

  5. Traffic Data Collection with TerraSAR-X and Performance Evaluation

    • Stefan Hinz, Steffen Suchandt, Diana Weihing, Franz Kurz
    Pages 87-108

  6. Object Recognition from Polarimetric SAR Images

    • Ronny Hänsch, Olaf Hellwich
    Pages 109-131

  7. Fusion of Optical and SAR Images

    • Florence Tupin
    Pages 133-159

  8. Estimation of Urban DSM from Mono-aspect InSAR Images

    • Céline Tison, Florence Tupin
    Pages 161-185

  9. Building Reconstruction from Multi-aspect InSAR Data

    • Antje Thiele, Jan Dirk Wegner, Uwe Soergel
    Pages 187-214

  10. SAR Simulation of Urban Areas: Techniques and Applications

    • Timo Balz
    Pages 215-231

  11. Urban Applications of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

    • Michele Crosetto, Oriol Monserrat, Gerardo Herrera
    Pages 233-248

  12. Airborne Remote Sensing at Millimeter Wave Frequencies

    • Helmut Essen
    Pages 249-271

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 273-277
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One of the key milestones of radar remote sensing for civil applications was the launch of the European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (ERS 1) in 1991. The platform carried a variety of sensors; the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is widely cons- ered to be the most important. This active sensing technique provides all-day and all-weather mapping capability of considerably ?ne spatial resolution. ERS 1 and its sister system ERS 2 (launch 1995) were primarily designed for ocean app- cations, but soon the focus of attention turned to onshore mapping. Examples for typical applications are land cover classi?cation also in tropical zones and mo- toring of glaciers or urban growth. In parallel, international Space Shuttle Missions dedicated to radar remote sensing were conducted starting already in the 1980s. The most prominent were the SIR-C/X-SAR mission focussing on the investigation of multi-frequency and multi-polarization SAR data and the famous Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Data acquired during the latter enabled to derive a DEM of almost global coverage by means of SAR Interferometry. It is indispe- ableeventodayandformanyregionsthebestelevationmodelavailable. Differential SAR Interferometry based on time series of imagery of the ERS satellites and their successor Envisat became an important and unique technique for surface defor- tion monitoring. The spatial resolution of those devices is in the order of some tens of meters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Photogrammetrie und GeoInformation, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Uwe Soergel

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