Building Characterisation Using Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Data

This paper describes the characterisation of buildings using fully polarimetric interferometric SAR data at Lband. This analysis is performed in two steps. Urban targets are first discriminated from surrounding natural media, using a polarimetric classification procedure. Then, urban objects are characterised by their shape information. The length and width is obtained using a superresolution procedure. An interferometric phase estimation, based on ESPRIT principle, is applied for the retrieval of the heigth of different media and specifically for the heigth of the buildings.

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