Statistical Edge Detection in Urban Areas Exploiting X-band Sar Data

This paper is focused on the urban edge detection topic, i.e. the identification of building and man made structures edges. An approach able to exploit jointly both the amplitudes and the interferometric phase of two complex SAR images is considered. This work is mainly focused on the application of this technique to real data sets. In particular, first experiments on COSMO-SkyMed data over the area of Naples have been carried out. The obtained results confirm the effectiveness and the accuracy of the approach, making it a useful tool for building edge detection using when very high resolution are available.