Seasonal change in the extent of inundation on floodplains detected by JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2497-2508

  Wang, Yong ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; FORESTRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATASETS; FLOODPLAINS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; FLOODPLAIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042702892     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001619562     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. BOURGEAU-CHAVEZ, L. L., KASISCHKE, E. S., BRUNZELL, S. M., MUDD, J. P., and SMITH, K. B., 2001, Analysis of space-borne SAR data for wetland mapping in Virginia riparian ecosystems. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22, 3665-3687.
2. CLARK, L. A., and PREGIBON, D., 1992, Tree-based models. In Statistical Model in S, edited by J. M. Chambers and T. J. Hastie, Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, pp. 377-420.
3. HESS, L. L., MELACK, J. M., FILOSO, S., and WANG, Y., 1995, Realtime mapping of inundation on the Amazon floodplain with the SIR-C/X-SAR synthetic aperture radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 33, 896-904.
4. HESS, L. L., MELACK, J. M., and SIMONETT, D. S., 1990, Radar detection of flooding beneath the forest canopy: a review. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 11, 1313-1325.
5. KASISCHKE, E. S., MELACK, J. M., and DOBSON, M. C., 1997, The use of imaging radars for ecological applications-a review. Remote Sensing of Environment, 59, 141-156.
6. KUROSU, T., YOKOYAMA, S., FUJITA, M., and CHIBA, K., 2001, Land use classification with textural analysis and the aggregation technique using multi-temporal JERS-1 Land SAR images. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22, 595-613.
7. MELACK, J. M., and WANG, Y., 1998, Delineation of flooded area and flooded vegetation in Balbina Reservoir (Amazonas, Brazil) with synthetic aperture radar. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung fur Limnologie, 26, 2374-2377.
8. MIRANDA, F. P., FONSECA, L. E. N., and CARR, J. R., 1998, Semivariogram textural classification of JERS-1 (Fuyo-1) SAR data obtained over a flooded area of the Amazon rainforest. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 549-556.
9. NATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NASDA) OF JAPAN, 1999, Advanced Land Observing System (ALOS) Research announcement: calibration and validation, utilization research, and scientific research.
10. PODEST, E., and SAATCHI, S., 2002, Application of multiscale texture in classifying JERS-1 radar data over tropical vegetation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23, 1487-1506.
11. POPE, K. O., REJMANKOVA, E., PARIS, J. F., and WOODRUFF, R., 1997, Detecting Seasonal Flooding Cycles in Marshes of the Yucatan Peninsula with SIR-C Polarimetric Radar Imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 59, 157-166.
12. RICHARDS, J. A., WOODGATE, P. W., and SKIDMORE, A. K., 1987, An explanation of enhanced radar backscatter from flooded forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 8, 1093-1100.
13. ROSENQVIST, A., FORSBERG, B. R., PIMENTEL, T., RAUSTE, Y. A., and RICHEY, J. E., 2002, The use of spaceborne radar data to model inundation patterns and trace gas emissions in the central Amazon floodplain. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23, 1303-1328.
14. TOWNSEND, P. A., 2002, Estimating forest structure in wetlands using multitemporal SAR. Remote Sensing of Environment, 79, 288-304.
15. TOWNSEND, P. A., and WALSH, S. J., 1998, Modeling floodplain inundation using an integrated GIS with radar and optical remote sensing. Geomorphology, 21, 295-312.
16. WANG, Y., 2002, Mapping the extent of a flood: what we have learned and how we can do better. Natural Hazards Review, 3(2), 68-73.
17. WANG, Y., COLBY, J. D., and MULCAHY, K. A., 2002, An efficient method for mapping flood extent in a coastal floodplain by integrating Landsat TM and DEM data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23, 3681-3696.
18. WU, Q. X., and NORTH, H. C., 2001, A multi-scale technique for detecting forest-cover boundary from L-band SAR images. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22, 757-772.