Radar Remote Sensing of Urban Areas

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-94-007-3172-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 278 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soergel, Uwe

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Radartechnik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Review of Radar Remote Sensing on Urban Areas.- Rapid Mapping Using Airborne and Satellite SAR Images.- Feature Fusion Based on Bayesian Network Theory for Automatic Road Extraction.- Traffic Data Collection with TerraSAR-X and Performance Evaluation.- Object Recognition from Polarimetric SAR Images.- Fusion of Optical and SAR Images.- Estimation of Urban DSM from Mono-aspect InSAR Images.- Building Reconstruction from Multi-aspect InSAR Data.- SAR Simulation of Urban Areas: Techniques and Applications.- Urban Applications of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry.- Airborne Remote Sensing at Millimeter Wave Frequencies.