Towards an automated SAR-based flood monitoring system: Lessons learned from two case studies

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 241-252

  Matgen, P ^a,c   Hostache, R ^a   Schumann, G ^b   Pfister, L ^a   Hoffmann, L ^a   Savenije, H H G ^c  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ENVISAT; Flood mapping; RADARSAT; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; ENVISAT; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FLOOD MAPPING; FLOOD MONITORING; FLOODED AREAS; HYBRID METHODOLOGIES; MONITORING SERVICES; OPEN WATER; RADARSAT; RED RIVER; REFERENCE IMAGE; REGION GROWING; SAR IMAGES; SAR SENSORS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THRESHOLDING; TRAINING DATA;

ALGORITHMS; DATA HANDLING; FLOODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; ENVISAT-1; FLOOD; MAPPING; MONITORING SYSTEM; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79952131805     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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