Big Data for 4D Global Urban Mapping – 10^16 Bytes from Social Media to EO Satellites

Project Information

So2Sat

Grant agreement ID: 714087

DOI 10.3030/714087

Project closed

EC signature date 14 February 2017

Start date 1 May 2017

End date 31 January 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 496 500,00

EU contribution € 1 496 500,00

Coordinated by

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Germany

Publications

Conference proceedings (22)

Non-local SAR Tomography for Large-scale Urban Mapping

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Yuanyuan Wang, Richard Bamler, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2019., 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss.2019.8897890

Large-Scale Urban Mapping using Small Stack Multi-Baseline TanDEM-X Interferograms

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Yuanyuan Wang, Richard Bamler, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse.2019.8808986

Conditional GIS-Aware Network for Individual Building Segmentation in a VHR SAR Image

Author(s): Yao Sun, Yuansheng Hua, Lichao Mou, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, Page(s) 4532-4535, ISBN 978-1-6654-0369-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss47720.2021.9553135

Building Footprint Extraction with Graph Convolutional Network

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Qingyu Li, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2019., 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss.2019.8898764

Generation of Large-Scale High Quality 3-D Urban Models

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Richard Bamler, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference 2020, 2020
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/radarconf2043947.2020.9266314

Changes in Twitter geolocations: Insights and suggestions for future usage

Author(s): Anna Kruspe, Matthias Häberle, Eike J. Hoffmann, Samyo Rode-Hasinger, Karam Abdulahhad, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2021), 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

High Quality Large-Scale 3-D Urban Mapping with Multi-Master TomoSAR

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Richard Bamler, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Proceedings of EUSAR 2020, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8007-5457-1
Publisher: VDE VERLAG

BFGAN–Building Footprint Extraction from Satellite Images

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Qingyu Li, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) 2019, 2019, ISSN 2642-9535
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse.2019.8809048

Digital deserts on the ground and from space

Author(s): Martin Klotz, Michael Wurm, Xiaoxiang Zhu, Hannes Taubenbock
Published in: 2017 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2017, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-5090-5808-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/JURSE.2017.7924562

Towards Global 3D/4D Urban Modeling Using TanDEM-X Data

Author(s): Zhu X., Sun Y., Shi Y., Wang Y., Ge N.
Published in: Proc. EUSAR, 2018
Publisher: VDE VERLAG GMBH  

3D Reconstruction from Very Small TanDEM-X Stacks

Author(s): Shi Y., Wang Y., Kang J., Lachaise M., Zhu X., Bamler R.
Published in: Proc. EUSAR, 2018
Publisher: VDE VERLAG GMBH  

An Efficient Algorithm for Compressive Sensing Based SAR Tomography

Author(s): Shi Y., Zhu X., Yin. W, Bamler R.
Published in: Proc. EUSAR, 2018
Publisher: VDE VERLAG GMBH  

Urban Local Climate Zone Classification with a Residual Convolutional Neural Network and Multi-Seasonal Sentinel-2 Images

Author(s): Qiu Chunping, Michael Schmitt, Mou Lichao, Zhu Xiaoxiang
Published in: 2018 10th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS), 2018, Page(s) 1-5, ISSN 2377-0198
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PRRS.2018.8486155

Classification of settlement types from tweets using LDA and LSTM

Author(s): Rong Huang, Hannes Taubenböck, Lichao Mou
Published in: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2018., 2018
Publisher: IEEE

Fusing Spaceborne SAR Interferometry and Street View Images for 4D Urban Modeling

Author(s): Yuanyuan Wang, Jian Kang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2018, Page(s) 1601-1606, ISBN 978-0-9964527-6-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/icif.2018.8455498

Building Instance Classification using Social Media Images

Author(s): Eike Jens Hoffmann, Martin Werner, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: 2019 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2019, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-7281-0009-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse.2019.8809056

Mutual Information Analysis of Social Media Images and Building Functions

Author(s): Eike Jens Hoffmann, Martin Werner, Xiaoxiang Zhu
Published in: 2019
Publisher: IEEE

Slum Mapping in Imbalanced Remote Sensing Datasets Using Transfer Learned Deep Features

Author(s): Thomas Stark, Michael Wurm, Hannes Taubenbock, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: 2019 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2019, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-7281-0009-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse.2019.8808965

Building Type Classification from Social Media Texts via geo-spatial Textmining

Author(s): Matthias Häberle, Martin Werner, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss.2019.8898836

Building Type Classification with Incomplete Labels

Author(s): Nikolai Skuppin, Eike Jens Hoffmann, Yilei Shi, Xiaoxiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2022, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss46834.2022.9884076

Instance Segmentation of Buildings Using Keypoints

Author(s): Qingyu Li, Lichao Mou, Yuansheng Hua, Yao Sun, Pu Jin, Yilei Shi, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020, Page(s) 1452-1455, ISBN 978-1-7281-6374-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss39084.2020.9324457

End-to-End Semantic Segmentation and Boundary Regularization of Buildings from Satellite Imagery

Author(s): Qingyu Li, Stefano Zorzi, Yilei Shi, Friedrich Fraundorfer, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, Page(s) 2508-2511, ISBN 978-1-6654-0369-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss47720.2021.9555147

Peer reviewed articles (71)

Planned, unplanned, or in-between? A concept of the intensity of plannedness and its empirical relation to the built urban landscape across the globe

Author(s): Henri Debray, Nicolas J. Kraff, Xiaoxiang Zhu, Hannes Taubenböck
Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023, ISSN 0169-2046
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104711

Can linguistic features extracted from geo-referenced tweets help building function classification in remote sensing?

Author(s): Matthias Häberle, Eike Jens Hoffmann, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.04.006

Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images With Sparse Annotations

Author(s): Yuansheng Hua, Diego Marcos, Lichao Mou, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Devis Tuia
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2021, Page(s) 1-5, ISSN 1545-598X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lgrs.2021.3051053

CG-Net: Conditional GIS-Aware Network for Individual Building Segmentation in VHR SAR Images

Author(s): Yao Sun, Yuansheng Hua, Lichao Mou, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.3043089

Single-Look Multi-Master SAR Tomography: An Introduction

Author(s): Nan Ge, Richard Bamler, Danfeng Hong, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.3002945

Basis Pursuit Denoising via Recurrent Neural Network Applied to Super-Resolving SAR Tomography

Author(s): Kun Qian; Yuanyuan Wang; Peter Jung; Yilei Shi; Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2022.3221185

Large-scale building height retrieval from single SAR imagery based on bounding box regression networks

Author(s): Yao Sun, Lichao Mou, Yuanyuan Wang, Sina Montazeri, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.11.024

SAR4LCZ-Net: A Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Network for Local Climate Zones Classification Using Gaofen-3 Quad-Pol SAR Data

Author(s): Rui Zhang, Yuanyuan Wang, Jingliang Hu, Wei Yang, Jie Chen, Xiaoxiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2021.3137911

Satellite-Based Mapping of Urban Poverty With Transfer-Learned Slum Morphologies

Author(s): Thomas Stark, Michael Wurm, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Hannes Taubenböck
Published in: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING, 2020, ISSN 1939-1404
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2020.3018862

HED-UNet: Combined Segmentation and Edge Detection for Monitoring the Antarctic Coastline

Author(s): Konrad Heidler, Lichao Mou, Celia Baumhoer, Andreas Dietz, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2021.3064606

So2Sat POP - A Curated Benchmark Data Set for Population Estimation from Space on a Continental Scale

Author(s): Sugandha Doda, Yuanyuan Wang, Matthias Kahl, Eike Jens Hoffmann, Kim Ouan, Hannes Taubenböck, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Nature Scientific Data, 2022, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01780-x

Seven city types representing morphologic configurations of cities across the globe

Author(s): H. Taubenböck, H. Debray, C. Qiu, M. Schmitt, Y. Wang, X.X. Zhu
Published in: Cities, Issue 105, 2020, Page(s) 102814, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102814

Land consumption in cities: A comparative study across the globe

Author(s): Jingliang Hu, Yuanyuan Wang, Hannes Taubenböck, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Cities, Issue 113, 2021, Page(s) 103163, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103163

Automatic registration of a single SAR image and GIS building footprints in a large-scale urban area

Author(s): Yao Sun, Sina Montazeri, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 170, 2020, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.09.016

Using social media images for building function classification

Author(s): Eike Jens Hoffmann, Karam Abdulahhad, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Cities, 2022, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104107

Semi-Supervised Building Footprint Generation With Feature and Output Consistency Training

Author(s): Qingyu Li; Yilei Shi; Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2022.3174636

Feature Importance Analysis for Local Climate Zone Classification Using a Residual Convolutional Neural Network with Multi-Source Datasets

Author(s): Chunping Qiu, Michael Schmitt, Lichao Mou, Pedram Ghamisi, Xiao Zhu
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 10/10, 2018, Page(s) 1572, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs10101572

Feature Extraction and Selection of Sentinel-1 Dual-Pol Data for Global-Scale Local Climate Zone Classification

Author(s): Jingliang Hu, Pedram Ghamisi, Xiao Zhu
Published in: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Issue 7/9, 2018, Page(s) 379, ISSN 2220-9964
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi7090379

Are the Poor Digitally Left Behind? Indications of Urban Divides Based on Remote Sensing and Twitter Data

Author(s): Hannes Taubenböck, Jeroen Staab, Xiao Zhu, Christian Geiß, Stefan Dech, Michael Wurm
Published in: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Issue 7/8, 2018, Page(s) 304, ISSN 2220-9964
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi7080304

Investigation on the separability of slums by multi-aspect TerraSAR-X dual-co-polarized high resolution spotlight images based on the multi-scale evaluation of local distributions

Author(s): Andreas Schmitt, Tobias Sieg, Michael Wurm, Hannes Taubenböck
Published in: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Issue 64, 2018, Page(s) 181-198, ISSN 0303-2434
Publisher: International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.09.006

The morphology of the Arrival City - A global categorization based on literature surveys and remotely sensed data

Author(s): H. Taubenböck, N.J. Kraff, M. Wurm
Published in: Applied Geography, Issue 92, 2018, Page(s) 150-167, ISSN 0143-6228
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.02.002

Detecting social groups from space – Assessment of remote sensing-based mapped morphological slums using income data

Author(s): M. Wurm, H. Taubenböck
Published in: Remote Sensing Letters, Issue 9/1, 2017, Page(s) 41-50, ISSN 2150-704X
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2017.1384586

Building instance classification using street view images

Author(s): Jian Kang, Marco Körner, Yuanyuan Wang, Hannes Taubenböck, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 145, 2018, Page(s) 44-59, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.02.006

Unsupervised Spectral–Spatial Feature Learning via Deep Residual Conv–Deconv Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Author(s): Lichao Mou, Pedram Ghamisi, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 56/1, 2018, Page(s) 391-406, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2748160

Long-Term Annual Mapping of Four Cities on Different Continents by Applying a Deep Information Learning Method to Landsat Data

Author(s): Haobo Lyu, Hui Lu, Lichao Mou, Wenyu Li, Jonathon Wright, Xuecao Li, Xinlu Li, Xiao Zhu, Jie Wang, Le Yu, Peng Gong
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 10/3, 2018, Page(s) 471, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs10030471

Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Review and List of Resources

Author(s): Xiao Xiang Zhu, Devis Tuia, Lichao Mou, Gui-Song Xia, Liangpei Zhang, Feng Xu, Friedrich Fraundorfer
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, Issue 5/4, 2017, Page(s) 8-36, ISSN 2168-6831
Publisher: IEEE Geosciene and Remote Sensing Society
DOI: 10.1109/MGRS.2017.2762307

A Review of Ten-Year Advances of Multi-Baseline SAR Interferometry Using TerraSAR-X Data

Author(s): Xiao Zhu, Yuanyuan Wang, Sina Montazeri, Nan Ge
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 10/9, 2018, Page(s) 1374, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs10091374

Buildings Detection in VHR SAR Images Using Fully Convolution Neural Networks

Author(s): Muhammad Shahzad, Michael Maurer, Friedrich Fraundorfer, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2864716

Fusion of TanDEM-X and Cartosat-1 elevation data supported by neural network-predicted weight maps

Author(s): Hossein Bagheri, Michael Schmitt, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 144, 2018, Page(s) 285-297, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.07.007

A Fast and Accurate Basis Pursuit Denoising Algorithm With Application to Super-Resolving Tomographic SAR

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Wotao Yin, Richard Bamler
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2832721

Potential and limits of non-local means InSAR filtering for TanDEM-X high-resolution DEM generation

Author(s): Xiao Xiang Zhu, Gerald Baier, Marie Lachaise, Yilei Shi, Fathalrahman Adam, Richard Bamler
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 218, 2018, Page(s) 148-161, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.09.012

Learnable manifold alignment (LeMA): A semi-supervised cross-modality learning framework for land cover and land use classification

Author(s): Danfeng Hong, Naoto Yokoya, Nan Ge, Jocelyn Chanussot, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 147, 2019, Page(s) 193-205, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.10.006

An Augmented Linear Mixing Model to Address Spectral Variability for Hyperspectral Unmixing

Author(s): Danfeng Hong, Naoto Yokoya, Jocelyn Chanussot, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2018, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 1057-7149
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2018.2878958

Learning a Robust Local Manifold Representation for Hyperspectral Dimensionality Reduction

Author(s): Danfeng Hong, Naoto Yokoya, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Issue 10/6, 2017, Page(s) 2960-2975, ISSN 1939-1404
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2682189

SULoRA: Subspace Unmixing with Low-Rank Attribute Embedding for Hyperspectral Data Analysis

Author(s): Danfeng Hong, Xiaoxiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2018, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 1932-4553
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2018.2877497

Model Fusion for Building Type Classification from Aerial and Street View Images

Author(s): Eike Jens Hoffmann, Yuanyuan Wang, Martin Werner, Jian Kang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 11/11, 2019, Page(s) 1259, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs11111259

Fusion of Multi-Sensor-Derived Heights and OSM-Derived Building Footprints for Urban 3D Reconstruction

Author(s): Hossein Bagheri, Michael Schmitt, Xiaoxiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Issue 8/4, 2019, Page(s) 193, ISSN 2220-9964
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi8040193

Semantic segmentation of slums in satellite images using transfer learning on fully convolutional neural networks

Author(s): Michael Wurm, Thomas Stark, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Matthias Weigand, Hannes Taubenböck
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 150, 2019, Page(s) 59-69, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.02.006

A Comparative Review of Manifold Learning Techniques for Hyperspectral and Polarimetric SAR Image Fusion

Author(s): Jingliang Hu, Danfeng Hong, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Zhu
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 11/6, 2019, Page(s) 681, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs11060681

Spaceborne Staring Spotlight SAR Tomography—A First Demonstration With TerraSAR-X

Author(s): Nan Ge, Fernando Rodriguez Gonzalez, Yuanyuan Wang, Yilei Shi, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Issue 11/10, 2018, Page(s) 3743-3756, ISSN 1939-1404
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2018.2851752

Geocoding Error Correction for InSAR Point Clouds

Author(s): Sina Montazeri, Fernando Rodríguez González, Xiao Zhu
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 10/10, 2018, Page(s) 1523, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs10101523

Has Dongying developed to a ghost city? - Evidence from multi-temporal population estimation based on VHR remote sensing and census counts

Author(s): Tobias Leichtle, Tobia Lakes, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Hannes Taubenböck
Published in: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Issue 78, 2019, Page(s) 101372, ISSN 0198-9715
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101372

Fusion of Heterogeneous Earth Observation Data for the Classification of Local Climate Zones

Author(s): Guichen Zhang, Pedram Ghamisi, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 57/10, 2019, Page(s) 7623-7642, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2019.2914967

Nonlocal Compressive Sensing-Based SAR Tomography

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Xiao xiang Zhu, Richard Bamler
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 57/5, 2019, Page(s) 3015-3024, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2018.2879382

Large-Area Characterization of Urban Morphology—Mapping of Built-Up Height and Density Using TanDEM-X and Sentinel-2 Data

Author(s): Christian Geis, Tobias Leichtle, Michael Wurm, Patrick Aravena Pelizari, Ines Standfus, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Emily So, Stefan Siedentop, Thomas Esch, Hannes Taubenbock
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Issue 12/8, 2019, Page(s) 2912-2927, ISSN 1939-1404
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2019.2917755

Fusion of Urban TanDEM-X Raw DEMs Using Variational Models

Author(s): Hossein Bagheri, Michael Schmitt, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Issue 11/12, 2018, Page(s) 4761-4774, ISSN 1939-1404
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2018.2878608

Local climate zone-based urban land cover classification from multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 images with a recurrent residual network

Author(s): Chunping Qiu, Lichao Mou, Michael Schmitt, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 154, 2019, Page(s) 151-162, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.05.004

Building Footprint Generation Using Improved Generative Adversarial Networks

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Qingyu Li, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Issue 16/4, 2019, Page(s) 603-607, ISSN 1545-598X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lgrs.2018.2878486

A Nonlocal InSAR Filter for High-Resolution DEM Generation From TanDEM-X Interferograms

Author(s): Gerald Baier, Cristian Rossi, Marie Lachaise, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Richard Bamler
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 56/11, 2018, Page(s) 6469-6483, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2018.2839027

MIMA: MAPPER-Induced Manifold Alignment for Semi-Supervised Fusion of Optical Image and Polarimetric SAR Data

Author(s): Jingliang Hu, Danfeng Hong, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 57/11, 2019, Page(s) 9025-9040, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2019.2924113

Bistatic-Like Differential SAR Tomography

Author(s): Nan Ge, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 57/8, 2019, Page(s) 5883-5893, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2019.2902814

Learning Spectral-Spatial-Temporal Features via a Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Change Detection in Multispectral Imagery

Author(s): Lichao Mou, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 57/2, 2019, Page(s) 924-935, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2018.2863224

So2Sat LCZ42: A Benchmark Dataset for Global Local Climate Zones Classification

Author(s): Xiaoxiang Zhu, Jingliang Hu, Chunping Qiu, Yilei Shi, Jian Kang, Lichao Mou, Hossein Bagheri, Matthias Haberle, Yuansheng Hua, Rong Huang, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, hao li, Yao Sun, Guichen Zhang, Shiyao Han, Michael Schmitt, Yuanyuan Wang
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 2020, Page(s) 0-0, ISSN 2168-6831
Publisher: IEEE Geosciene and Remote Sensing Society
DOI: 10.1109/mgrs.2020.2964708

A framework for large-scale mapping of human settlement extent from Sentinel-2 images via fully convolutional neural networks

Author(s): Chunping Qiu, Michael Schmitt, Christian Geiß, Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 163, 2020, Page(s) 152-170, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.01.028

Fusing Multiseasonal Sentinel-2 Imagery for Urban Land Cover Classification With Multibranch Residual Convolutional Neural Networks

Author(s): Chunping Qiu, Lichao Mou, Michael Schmitt, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2020, Page(s) 1-5, ISSN 1545-598X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lgrs.2019.2953497

Mapping the Land Cover of Africa at 10 m Resolution from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data with Google Earth Engine

Author(s): Qingyu Li, Chunping Qiu, Lei Ma, Michael Schmitt, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 12/4, 2020, Page(s) 602, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs12040602

SAR Tomography at the Limit: Building Height Reconstruction Using Only 3-5 TanDEM-X Bistatic Interferograms

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Richard Bamler, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.2986052

Multipass SAR Interferometry Based on Total Variation Regularized Robust Low Rank Tensor Decomposition

Author(s): Jian Kang, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.2964617

Building Footprint Generation by Integrating Convolution Neural Network With Feature Pairwise Conditional Random Field (FPCRF)

Author(s): Qingyu Li, Yilei Shi, Xin Huang, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.2973720

Relation Matters: Relational Context-Aware Fully Convolutional Network for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Aerial Images

Author(s): Lichao Mou, Yuansheng Hua, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.2979552

Relation Network for Multilabel Aerial Image Classification

Author(s): Yuansheng Hua, Lichao Mou, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2019.2963364

Learning to Pay Attention on Spectral Domain: A Spectral Attention Module-Based Convolutional Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Author(s): Lichao Mou, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 58/1, 2020, Page(s) 110-122, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2019.2933609

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Band Selection in Hyperspectral Image Classification

Author(s): Lichao Mou, Sudipan Saha, Yuansheng Hua, Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2021.3067096

γ-Net: Superresolving SAR Tomographic Inversion via Deep Learning

Author(s): Kun Qian; Yuanyuan Wang; Yilei Shi; Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2022.3164193

Aerial scene understanding in the wild: Multi-scene recognition via prototype-based memory networks

Author(s): Yuansheng Hua, Lichao Mou, Jianzhe Lin, Konrad Heidler, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 177, 2021, Page(s) 89-102, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.04.006

Building segmentation through a gated graph convolutional neural network with deep structured feature embedding

Author(s): Yilei Shi, Qingyu Li, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 159, 2020, Page(s) 184-197, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.11.004

Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach

Author(s): Xiao Xiang Zhu; Yuanyuan Wang; Mrinalini Kochupillai; Martin Werner; Matthias Häberle; Eike Jens Hoffmann; Hannes Taubenböck; Devis Tuia; Alex Levering; Nathan Jacobs; Anna Kruspe; Karam Abdulahhad
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 2022, ISSN 2168-6831
Publisher: IEEE Geosciene and Remote Sensing Society
DOI: 10.1109/mgrs.2022.3219584

Building Footprint Generation Through Convolutional Neural Networks With Attraction Field Representation

Author(s): Qingyu Li, Lichao Mou, Yuansheng Hua, Yilei Shi, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2021.3109844

Deep Learning Meets SAR: Concepts, Models, Pitfalls, and Perspectives

Author(s): Xiaoxiang Zhu, Sina Montazeri, Mohsin Ali, Yuansheng Hua, Yuanyuan Wang, Lichao Mou, Yilei Shi, Feng Xu, Richard Bamler
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, 2021, Page(s) 0-0, ISSN 2168-6831
Publisher: IEEE Geosciene and Remote Sensing Society
DOI: 10.1109/mgrs.2020.3046356

Geo-spatial text-mining from Twitter - a feature space analysis with a view toward building classification in urban regions

Author(s): Matthias Häberle, Martin Werner, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Published in: European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019, ISSN 2279-7254
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2019.1586451

The urban morphology on our planet – Global perspectives from space

Author(s): Xiao Xiang Zhu, Chunping Qiu, Jingliang Hu, Yilei Shi, Yuanyuan Wang, Michael Schmitt, Hannes Taubenböck
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112794