A hierarchical spatio-temporal Markov model for improved flood mapping using multi-temporal X-band SAR data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2240-2258

  Martinis, Sandro ^a   Twele, André ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic thresholding; Change detection; Flood mapping; Flood possibility mask; Generalized Gaussian distribution; Hierarchical marginal posterior mode (HMPM) estimation; Irregular graph; Markov random fields (MRFs); Namibia; Spatio temporal context; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; CHANGE DETECTION; FLOOD MAPPING; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; IRREGULAR GRAPH; MARGINAL POSTERIOR MODES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; NAMIBIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TERRASAR-X;

ENTROPY; ESTIMATION; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80051878061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2092240     Document Type: Article

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