Seon Ho Oh   Kyung Ho Jang   Soon Ki Jung

Vol. 16,  No. 6, pp. 451-462, Dec.  2009
10.3745/KIPSTB.2009.16.6.451

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The spread of satellite image increases various services using it. Especially, 3D visualization services of the whole earth such as Google Earth™ and Visual Earth™ or 3D GIS services for several cities provide realistic geometry information of buildings and terrain of wide areas. These service can be used in the various fields such as urban planning, improvement of roads, entertainment, military simulation and emergency response. The research about extracting the building and terrain information effectively from the high-resolution satellite image is required. In this paper, presents a system for effective extraction of the building model from a single high-resolution satellite image, after examine requirements for building model extraction. The proposed system utilizes geometric features of satellite image and the geometric relationship among the building, the shadow of the building, the positions of the sun and the satellite to minimize user interaction. Finally, after extracting the 3D building, the fact that effective extraction of the model from single high-resolution satellite will be show.