Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs12050870
Keywords
stereo matching; block matching; DSM; water area; ZY-3
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41971419]
- Key Laboratory of Surveying and Mapping Science and Geospatial Information Technology of Ministry of Natural Resources [201915]
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Image dense matching has become one of the widely used means for DSM generation due to its good performance in both accuracy and efficiency. However, for water areas, the most common ground object, accurate disparity estimation is always a challenge to excellent image dense matching methods, as represented by semi-global matching (SGM), due to the poor texture. For this reason, a great deal of manual editing is always inevitable before practical applications. The main reason for this is the lack of uniqueness of matching primitives, with fixed size and shape, used by those methods. In this paper, we propose a novel DSM generation method, namely semi-global and block matching (SGBM), to achieve accurate disparity and height estimation in water areas by adaptive block matching instead of pixel matching. First, the water blocks are extracted by seed point growth, and an adaptive block matching strategy considering geometrical deformations, called end-block matching (EBM), is adopted to achieve accurate disparity estimation. Then, the disparity of all other pixels beyond these water blocks is obtained by SGM. Last, the median value of height of all pixels within the same block is selected as the final height for this block after forward intersection. Experiments are conducted on ZiYuan-3 (ZY-3) stereo images, and the results show that DSM generated by our method in water areas has high accuracy and visual quality.
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