Flood monitoring using multi-temporal COSMO-skymed data: Image segmentation and signature interpretation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 990-1002

  Pulvirenti, L ^a   Chini, M ^b   Pierdicca, N ^a   Guerriero, L ^c   Ferrazzoli, P ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed; Floods; Image segmentation; Mathematical morphology; SAR

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FLOODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COSMO SKYMED; COSMO-SKYMED MISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODELING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOODING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; RADAR; SATELLITE MISSION;

ITALY;

EID: 79951862564     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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