Near real-time flood detection in urban and rural areas using high-resolution synthetic aperture radar images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3041-3052

  Mason, David C ^a   Davenport, Ian J ^a   Neal, Jeffrey C ^b   Schumann, Guy J P ^b   Bates, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; hydrology; image processing; simulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; OBJECT CLASSIFICATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; SIMULATION; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AND RURAL AREAS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN WATERS;

ALGORITHMS; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXELS; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RURAL AREAS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PIXEL; REAL TIME; RURAL AREA; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84864288441     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2178030     Document Type: Article

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