EuroSDR Projects - Host Ireland

1.2 Contest Phases
In phase 1 test participants have visually interpreted the imagery and captured interactively topographic
objects as ortho-images of one or more study areas. In the second phase, test participants used
automatic methods for object detection and classification. Finally, data fusion will be used in the third
phase to derive results using both sensors (Table 1).
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Participants
Phase Image Data Linear Objects Areal Objets
I II III SAR Optical roads railways rivers agricult. forest built-up lakes
Budapest University of Technology
and Economics, HUNGARY
Photogrammetry Department
General Command of Mapping,
TURKEY
University of Hannover, GERMANY
Institute for Photogrammetry and
GeoInformation
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Department Info-Com, ITALY
Fraunhofer Institute
Information and Data Processing,
GERMANY
Technical University Munich
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
GERMANY
Ness A.T Inc.
ISRAEL
TNO Human Factors
THE NETHERLANDS
Chinese Academy of Surveying
and Mapping, CHINA
Phase I Visual Interpretation
Phase II Automatic Object Extraction and Classification
Phase III Sensor Fusion
Table 1: Contest Phases
In a preliminary phase of the contest, the test site data were organised and prepared for use in the
contest. After this work, the first phase started in July 2003. The duration of each contest phase was
approximately one year.
1.3 Participants
In total nine institutes are participating in the contest. Table 2 shows a list of these institutes, the
phases they are taking part in, and their interests in term of sensor type and object classes.
Table 2: EuroSDR Contest Participants