Monitoring of the water-area variations of Lake Dongting in China with ENVISAT ASAR images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 894-901

  Ding, XianWen ^a,c   Li, XiaoFeng ^a,b,c  

^a SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Marine Fishery Resources Management   (China)

Author keywords

ENVISAT; Lake Dongting; SAR; Water area; Water level; Yangtze river

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; ENVISAT-1; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAKE WATER; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER LEVEL; WATER STORAGE;

CHINA; DONGTING LAKE; HUNAN; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84864409846     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. BHYRWRC (Bureau of Hydrology, Yangtze River Water Resources Commission), 2000. Monitoring and forecast of 1998 floods in the Yangtze River. Water and Power Press, Beijing (in Chinese).
2. Boyle, R., Thomas, R., 1988. Computer Vision: A First Course. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
3. Bryant, R.G., Rainey, M.P., 2002. Investigation of flood inundation on playas within the zone of Chotts, using a time-series of AVHRR. Remote Sens. Environ. 82 (2-3), 360-375.
4. Chang, J., Li, J., Lu, D., Zhu, X., Lu, C., Zhou, Y., Deng, C., 2010. The hydrological effect between Jingjiang River and Dongting Lake during the initial period of Three Gorges Project operation. J. Geogr. Sci. 20 (5), 771-786.
5. Cleveland, W.S., 1979. Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing scatterplots. J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 74 (368), 829-836.
6. Descombes, X., Moctezuma, M., Maitre, H., et al., 1996. Coastline detection by a Markovian segmentation on SAR images. Signal Process. 55 (1), 123-132.
7. ESA, 2007. ASAR products user guide. In: ENVISAT ASAR Product Handbook.
8. Horritt, M.,Mason, D., Luckman, A., 2006. Flood boundary delineation from synthetic aperture radar imagery using a statistical active contour model. Int. J. Remote Sens. 22 (13), 2489-2507.
9. International Lake Environment Committee, http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/asi/asi-11.html, 2011.
10. Lee, J., Jurkevich, I., 1990. Coastline detection and tracing in SAR images. IEEE T. Geosci. Remote 28 (4), 662-668.
11. Liu, H., Jezek, K.C., 2004. Automated extraction of coastline from satellite imagery by integrating Canny edge detection and locally adaptive thresholding methods. Int. J. Remote Sens. 25 (5), 937-958.
12. Marti-Cardona, B., Lopez-Martinez, C., Dolz-Ripolles, J., et al., 2010. ASAR polarimetric, multi-incidence angle and multitemporal characterization of Doñana wetlands for flood extent monitoring. Remote Sens. Environ. 114 (11), 2802-2815.
13. Mason, D.C., Davenport, I.J., 1996. Accurate and efficient determination of the shoreline in ERS-1 SAR images. IEEE T. Geosci. Remote 34 (5), 1243-1253.
14. Niedermeier, A., Romaneessen, E., Lehner, S., 2000. Detection of coastlines in SAR images using wavelet methods. IEEE T. Geosci. Remote 38 (5), 2270-2281.
15. Papa, F., Prigent, C., Rossow, W.B., et al., 2006. Inundated wetland dynamics over boreal regions from remote sensing: the use of Topex-Poseidon dual-frequency radar altimeter observations. Int. J. Remote Sens 27 (21), 4847-4866.
16. Reuters, 2007. China drought threatens water supply for millions. ChinaDaily, May 15th.
17. Seiler, R., Schmidt, J., Diallo, O., et al., 2009. Flood monitoring in a semi-arid environment using spatially high resolution radar and optical data. J. Environ. Manage. 90 (7), 2121-2129.
18. Silveira, M., Heleno, S., 2009. Separation between water and land in SAR images using region-based level sets. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett. 6 (3), 471-475.
19. Smith, L.C., 1997. Satellite remote sensing of river inundation area, stage, and discharge: a review. Hydrol. Process. 11 (10), 1427-1439.
20. Smith, L.C., Pavelsky, T.M., 2009. Remote sensing of volumetric storage changes in lakes. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms 34 (10), 1353-1358.
21. Spignesi, S.J., 2004. Catastrophe!: The 100 Greatest Disasters of All Time. Citadel Press, New York.
22. Wang, Q., Watanabe, M., Hayashi, S., et al., 2003. Using NOAA AVHRR data to assess flood damage in China. Environ. Monit. Assess. 82, 119-148.
23. WRBHP (Water Resources Bureau of Hunan Province), 2002. Diversion, migration and construction in Dongting Lake in Hunan Province (in Chinese). WRBHP Report.
24. Yu, Y., Acton, S.T., 2004. Automated delineation of coastline from polarimetric SAR imagery. Int. J. Remote Sens. 25 (17), 3423-3438.
25. Zhang, J., Xu, K., Yang, Y., et al., 2006. Measuring water storage fluctuations in Lake Dongting China, by Topex/Poseidon Satellite Altimetry. Environ. Monit. Assess. 115, 23-37.
26. Zhou, C., Luo, J., Yang, C., et al., 2000. Flood monitoring using multi-temporal AVHRR and RADARSAT imagery. Photogramm. Eng. Rem. S. 66 (5), 633-638.