Reconstruction of building façades using spaceborne multiview TomoSAR point clouds

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach that allows automatic reconstruction of building façades from 4D point cloud generated from tomographic SAR processing. The approach is modular and works by extracting façade points from the point density projected onto the ground plane. Individual façades are segmented using an unsupervised clustering procedure. Surface (flat or curved) model parameters of the segmented building façades are further estimated and finally the geometric primitives such as intersection points of the adjacent façades are determined to complete the reconstruction process. The proposed approach is illustrated and validated by examples using TomoSAR point clouds generated from TerraSAR-X high resolution spotlight images.