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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.

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Author:   Uwe Soergel
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2010 ed.
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9789048137503

ISBN 10:   9048137500
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   18 March 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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