To address the disadvantage of traditional methods providing only two-dimensional (2D) damage change of the collapsed buildings, this paper presents an approach for the detection of the buildings that have collapsed in an earthquake based on 3D geometric changes, particularly height change of the buildings, using preand post-seismic IKONOS stereo image pairs. One of the critical issues – the ac...

Using high resolution imagery such as IKONOS data should make it possible to detect man-made-features such as buildings and roads more easily than with conventional satellite image data. However, due to the higher spatial resolution of IKONOS data, an automatic or semiautomatic detection of such features based only on their spectral characteristics can become difficult, especially in heterogene...

For decades, aerial photographs have been the only source of very high spatial resolution data for coral reef researchers. With the launch of the Ikonos satellite in 1999, imagery with a 4 m spatial resolution in multispectral mode can now be combined with historical aerial photographs for change detection. We demonstrate this potential by combining two aerial photographs (1981 and 1992) and an...

Remote sensing has been used mostly to produce analyses on different aspects and phenomena concerning territory. The approach is not different from the one employed when analysing maps in the sense that analysis depends on the nature of data, maps and satellite images being two different sources of spatial data. Obviously, analysis based on cartographic data is different from the one based on s...

This paper describes the processing of IKONOS and QUICKBIRD imagery of two different datasets in Switzerland for analyzing the geometric accuracy potential of these images for 3D point positioning, and orthoimage and DSM generation. The first dataset consists of panchromatic and multispectral IKONOS and QUICKBIRD images covering the region of Geneva. In the second area around Thun with a height...