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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-XI-3-2026-427-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Stereo SAR for Building Imaging</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lin</surname>
<given-names>Yun</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Yanping</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tian</surname>
<given-names>Junqi</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dong</surname>
<given-names>Jiankun</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shen</surname>
<given-names>Wenjie</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Wen</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Radar Monitoring Technology Laboratory, School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>08</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XI-3-2026</volume>
<fpage>427</fpage>
<lpage>432</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Yun Lin et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Structural health monitoring is essential for building safety. While SAR provides all-weather, non-contact imaging, it is often affected by geometric distortions like layover and foreshortening, making it difficult to extract accurate 3D structural information from complex targets like buildings. Inspired by stereo vision, we propose a stereo SAR mode that acquires two images via a single rotation. By transforming Cartesian to polar coordinates, the disparity is constrained to the angular direction, significantly simplifying the matching process. We derive the nonlinear relationship between height and disparity and apply Newton&amp;rsquo;s iterative method for accurate 3D reconstruction. Real data collected by a millimetre-wave radar system validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.</p>
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