Towards operational automatic flood detection using EOS/MODIS data

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 637-646

  Sun, Donglian ^a   Yu, Yunyue ^b   Zhang, Rui ^a   Li, Sanmei ^a   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DYNAMIC MONITORING; LEARNING PROCESS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEAR INFRA-RED REFLECTANCES; REGRESSION TREES; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TREE-BASED REGRESSION; VISIBLE CHANNELS;

FLOODS;

EOS; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODING; LANDSAT; LEARNING; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; THEMATIC MAPPING;

FLOODING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICS; REFLECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864779695     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.78.6.637     Document Type: Article

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