Flood detection in Urban areas using TerraSAR-X

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 882-894

  Mason, David C ^a   Speck, Rainer ^b   Devereux, Bernard ^c   Schumann, Guy J P ^d   Neal, Jeffrey C ^d   Bates, Paul D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Hydrology; Image processing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AIRBORNE SCANNING LASER ALTIMETRY; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MAJOR HAZARDS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; TALLER VEGETATION; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREAS; URBAN FLOODS; URBAN WATERS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHMS; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEGETATION; WATER;

SATELLITES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; FLOODING; LIDAR; MODEL VALIDATION; PIXEL; SATELLITE MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 76249118908     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2029236     Document Type: Article

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