Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (5): 1469-1486.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.05.10

• Sensors and Signal Processing • Previous Articles    

3D reconstruction of high-rise buildings from SAR combined with footprint and phase information

Ning LIU1,2,3, Fangfang LI1,2,*, Xinwu LI1,4, Wen HONG1,2,3   

  1. 1. Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Technology in Geospatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    3. School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    4. Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
  • Received:2024-03-20 Online:2025-06-11 Published:2025-06-18
  • Contact: Fangfang LI

Abstract:

Aiming at the difficulty of distinguishing adjacent buildings and extracting the length of layover areas caused by the diverse forms and dense distribution of high-rise buildings in urban areas, a high-rise building three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction method from high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based on footprint and phase information is proposed. By introducing external footprint information, registered with double bounce bright lines, complete and accurate building footprints on SAR images are obtained, and the distinction between adjacent high-rise buildings in complex situations is realized. Based on the relationship between the building footprint and the interferometric phase, the footprint direction and the interferometric fringe direction, the length of the layover area of each footprint edge is accurately extracted to obtain the building height. Finally, parameters of high-rise buildings with missing footprints are extracted. 3D reconst-ruction of high-rise buildings is realized based on the footprint and height of each building. Experimental results show that the proposed method has promising 3D reconstruction capabilities of high-rise buildings.

Key words: building footprint, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR), high-rise building, three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction

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