Ready-to-use GIS Information From Remotely Sensed SAR Data
Price
Free (open access)
Volume
21
Pages
8
Published
1998
Size
1,260 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/GIS980251
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
G. Sylos Labini, S. Samarelli, G. Pasquariello G. Nico, A. Refice & J. Bequignon
Abstract
SAR data are not suitable for direct use by the GIS community. A wide variety of users, ranging from urban planners to Earth resource managers or insurance brokers, have been managing territorial information in Geographical Information Systems. They want to get relevant and updated information, ready to be inserted into their systems. In order to fulfil these requirements, the relevant information must be first extracted from the radiometric data gathered by the satellite sensors. Information must then be made available in a suitable format. A study has been performed to address the aspect of the realisation of
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