A satellite image analysis and processing apparatus includes a DEM extraction
unit
for extracting digital elevation model information having topography data and steeple-shaped
building data; a topography situation recognition unit for discriminating a kind
of topography and recognizing a topographic situation from the topography data
of the digital elevation model information; a steeple-shaped building recognition
unit for recognizing shape and location information of steeple-shaped buildings
from the steeple-shaped building data of the digital elevation model information;
a time series recognition unit for recognizing a change with time; and an altitude
visibility information preservation unit for preserving altitude visibility information
obtained by combining information acquired by the topography situation recognition
unit, information acquired by the steeple-shaped building recognition unit, and
information acquired by the time series recognition unit in an altitude visibility
information database provided in the altitude visibility information preservation apparatus.