A Processing Chain for Simple 3D Reconstruction of Buildings in Urban Scenes From High Resolution Optical and SAR Images
Conference: EUSAR 2010 - 8th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/07/2010 - 06/10/2010 at Aachen, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2010
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Sportouche, Helene; Tupin, Florence (Institut Telecom, Telecom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, TSI Department, 46, rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France)
Sportouche, Helene (Thales Communications, Land and Joint Systems, IMINT Department, 2-5, avenue Carnot, Bât. F, 91883 Massy, France)
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a complete semi-automatic processing chain able to provide, from a couple of high-resolution optical and SAR images, a simple three-dimensional reconstruction of the buildings in urban scenes. The chain is decomposed into four steps: building boundary extraction, footprint projection and registration, height estimation and building validation. Each of these steps is described from a methodological point of view and applied on a scene of interest on Quickbird and TerraSAR-X images. Good results of building detection and height retrieval are obtained and a satisfying final 3D reconstruction of buildings is provided.