A Taxonomy for High Resolution SAR Images

This paper proposes a semantic annotation conducted on a large number of scenes containing high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. This investigation has an important impact in applications such as classification of urban areas, infrastructure, industrial sites, military sites, landscape and agriculture. The proposed taxonomy can serve as basis for building a semantic catalogue for Earth Observation (EO) images. Finally, a set of queries based on these semantics can be defined and are planned to be integrated into the new system developed at DLR