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22 October 2010Sub-urban landscape characterization by very high-resolution X-band COSMO-Skymed SAR images: first results
The very-high spatial resolution provided by COSMO-Skymed products, also considering the concurrent TerraSAR-X
mission, opens new challenges in the field of SAR image processing for remote sensing applications, maybe comparable
to those represented by the first optical commercial satellites at the beginning of last decade. The Tor Vergata-Frascati
test site, where extensive ground-truth data are available, was imaged by the COSMO constellation at two different days
in summer 2010. This enabled first investigations on the potential of this type of imagery in providing a characterization
of sub-urban areas by exploitation of both amplitude and phase information contained in the radar return. In particular
this paper deals with the set-up of preliminary chains of automatic processing based on Multi-Layer Perceptron neural
networks for pixel based analysis. Also some comments concerning the retrieval of information on the vertical properties
of a single building are reported.
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Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Loschiavo, Chiara Pratola, Giovanni Schiavon, Domenico Solimini, "Sub-urban landscape characterization by very high-resolution X-band COSMO-Skymed SAR images: first results," Proc. SPIE 7829, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques X, 782908 (22 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.867920