A novel approach for disaster monitoring: Fractal models and tools

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1559-1570

  Di Martino, Gerardo ^a,b,c   Iodice, Antonio ^a,b   Riccio, Daniele ^a,b   Ruello, Giuseppe ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Ingegneria Senza Frontiere Napoli   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change detection; Fractals; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MONITORING APPLICATIONS; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL MODELS; FRACTAL PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; FLOOD DAMAGE; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 34249817144     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.887024     Document Type: Article

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