New opportunities and challenges for analysis of urban areas in high resolution SAR data

Leading-edge airborne SAR sensors provide spatial resolutions in theorder of decimeters. In such data many features of urban objectscan be identified, which were beyond the scope of radar remote sensingbefore. In this paper, the impact of high-resolution SAR data onthe analysis of urban scenes is discussed. An example for the newquality of the appearance of buildings in such data is given andinterpreted. The fine level of detail opens the opportunity to reconstructthe structure of man-made objects (e.g. buildings). The problem ofthe high com-putational load required for the processing and theimage analysis of high-resolution SAR data is discussed. Finally,the topics geocoding and data fusion are addressed.     «

Leading-edge airborne SAR sensors provide spatial resolutions in theorder of decimeters. In such data many features of urban objectscan be identified, which were beyond the scope of radar remote sensingbefore. In this paper, the impact of high-resolution SAR data onthe analysis of urban scenes is discussed. An example for the newquality of the appearance of buildings in such data is given andinterpreted. The fine level of detail opens the opportunity to reconstructthe structure of man-made objec...     »