Optical and Radar merge: Application on Firenze's Urban Environment

Historical European towns such as Firenze have a very mixed urban tissue characterised by the presence of monuments, ancient squares and bridges: the project will detect and classify by Remote Sensing implements the construction materials forming the urban environment. the actually available optical remotely sensed data lack in resolution and thematical information to be applied to urban scale applications. The question is: are remotely sensed radar data, being more precise in resolution, eventually combined with optical RS data and to ground truth control data, able to offer more satisfying results? If so, an automatisation methodology has to be developed in order to offer end-user oriented applicability that allows to integrate these data with already existing traditional data bases.