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Considering that the high-rise buildings in urban areas are quite common in big cities, it is of great importance to retrieve the three-dimension (3D) information of the urban high-rise buildings in urban remote sensing applications. In this paper, the 3D reconstruction of high-rise buildings using the wrapped InSAR phase image was studied, referring to the geometric modulation in very high resolution (VHR) SAR images, such as serious layover cause by high-rise buildings. Under the assumption of a rectangular shape, the high-rise buildings were detected and building fa\u00e7ades were extracted based on the local frequency analysis of the layover fringe patterns. Then 3D information of buildings were finally extracted according to the detected fa\u00e7ade geometry. Except for testing on a small urban area from the TanDEM-X data, the experiment carried on the single-pass InSAR wrapped phase in the wide urban scene, which was collected by the Chinese airborne N-SAR system, also demonstrated the possibility and applicability of the approach.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19061439","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,25]],"date-time":"2019-03-25T06:56:52Z","timestamp":1553497012000},"page":"1439","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["High-Rise Building 3D Reconstruction with the Wrapped Interferometric Phase"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0403-5142","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical Universtiy, Xi\u2019an 710129, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3624-4923","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Zang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian Universtiy, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"GuoBin","family":"Jing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Huawei Technologies Co. 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