The first German space mission TerraSAR-X was launched on June 15th, 2007. Within the TerraSAR-X science program of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Institute of Digital Image Processing of Joanneum Research (JRDIB) has gained a principal investigator status with respect to the assessment of the mapping potential of TerraSAR-X data using radargrammetric as well as interferometric techniqu...

Cartosat-1 provides stereo images of spatial resolution 2.5m with high fidelity of geometry. Stereo camera on the spacecraft has look angles of +26 degree and -5 degree respectively that yields effective along track stereo. Any DSM generation algorithm can use the stereo images for accurate 3D reconstruction and measurement of ground. Dense match points and pixel-wise matching are prerequisite ...

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The High Resolution Stereo (HRS) Scientific Assessment Program offered by the French space agency CNES and ISPRS, provided data sets from the SPOT stereo camera system (HRS) together with high precision ancillary data. Two test data sets from this program were evaluated: one is located in Germany, the other in Spain. The first goal was to derive orthoimages and digital surface models (DSM) from...

The increasing availability of high resolution stereo images from Earth observation satellites has boosted the development of tools for producing 3D elevation models. The objective of these tools is to produce digital elevation models of very large areas with minimal human intervention. The development of these tools has been shaped by the constraints of the remote sensing acquisition, for exam...

Visual servoing is the fusion of results from many elemental areas including high-speed image processing, kinematics, dynamics, control theory, and real-time computing. It has much in common with research into active vision and structure from motion, but is quite different from the often described use of vision in hierarchical task-level robot control systems. We present a new approach to visua...

To respond actively to a dynamic environment, a vision system must process perceptual data in real time, and in multiple modalities. The structure of the computational load varies across the levels of vision, requiring multiple architectures. We describe the Vision Engine, a system with a pipelined early vision architecture, Datacube image processors, connected to a MIMD intermediate vision sys...