Radar Remote Sensing of Urban Areas

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.

• Geoinformationssysteme
• Object reconstruction
• Pattern recognition
• Radar remote sensing
• SAR
• Spatial analysis
• TerraSAR-X
• Urban areas
• digital elevation model
• remote sensing
• urban geography and urbanism
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

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

  Uwe Soergel

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