NDLI: The Epipolarity Constraint in Stereo-Radargrammetric DEM Generation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gutjahr, K. Perko, R. Raggam, H. Schardt, M.
Copyright Year	1980
Abstract	For stereometric processing of optical image pairs, the concept of epipolar geometry is widely used. It helps to reduce the complexity of image matching, which can be seen to be the most crucial step within a workflow to generate digital elevation models. In this paper, it is shown that this concept is also applicable to the cocircular geometry of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image pairs. First, it is proven that, for any feasible SAR acquisition, the deviation from true epipolar geometry is within subpixel range and therefore acceptably small. Based on this, we propose a method to create “epipolar” geometry for arbitrary stereo configurations of any SAR sensor through appropriate geometric image transformations. Consequently, the semiglobal matching (SGM) algorithm can be applied, which is restricted to epipolar geometry and is thus known to be highly efficient. This innovative approach, integrating both epipolar transformation and SGM, has been applied to a TerraSAR-X stereo data set. Its benefit has been demonstrated in a comparative assessment with respect to results, which have been previously achieved on the same test data using state-of-the-art stereometric methods.
Sponsorship	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IEEE URSI
Starting Page	5014
Ending Page	5022
Page Count	9
File Size	1214342
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01962892
Volume Number	52
Issue Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Synthetic aperture radar Geometry Optical sensors Accuracy Doppler effect Optical imaging Laser radar 3-D mapping Digital elevation model (DEM) epipolar geometry stereo-radargrammetry synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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