Unsupervised extraction of flood-induced backscatter changes in SAR data using markov image modeling on irregular graphs

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 251-263

  Martinis, Sandro ^a   Twele, Andr ^a   Voigt, Stefan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic thresholding; change detection; flood mapping; generalized Gaussian distribution; hierarchical maximum a posteriori (HMAP) marginal estimation; irregular graph; Markov random field (MRF)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; CHANGE DETECTION; FLOOD MAPPING; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; IRREGULAR GRAPH; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISASTER PREVENTION; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARKOV CHAIN; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650890354     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2052816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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