Radar Remote Sensing of Urban Areas

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Soergel, Uwe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, 15
• Subjects: Geography.; Geophysics.; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Geographical information systems.; Remote sensing.; Urban geography.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Pattern Recognition.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

This book presents 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 (SAR) data. SAR is an active remote sensing technique capable to gather data independentl...