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Although a considerable number of high-quality SAR images are now available, the method of road extraction is lagging. To extract the road network with low missed and false rates, this paper proposed a road network extraction approach which includes line detection, road segmentation, road network extraction and optimization. First, the linear feature response and direction map are obtained from the SAR intensity image using the multiplicative Duda operation. Then, the backscattering coefficient and coefficient of variation are combined using a support vector machine to eliminate the linear structures of non-roads, and the binary image of road candidates is subsequently achieved by morphological profiles of path openings. Next, with the obtained direction map, a novel thinning method based on binary image decomposition and curve fitting is presented to obtain line segments of the road network. Finally, a series of measures which involve overlap, continuity, and junction optimization are proposed to construct the road network. In the experiments, the proposed method was applied to Radarsat-2 and TerraSAR-X high-resolution images. 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