Monitoring flood extent in the lower Amazon River floodplain using ALOS/PALSAR ScanSAR images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-61

  Arnesen, Allan S ^a   Silva, Thiago S F ^a   Hess, Laura L ^b   Novo, Evlyn M L M ^a   Rudorff, Conrado M ^b   Chapman, Bruce D ^c   McDonald, Kyle C ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Incidence angle; Kyoto Carbon Initiative; Multi temporal analysis; Object based image analysis; Synthetic aperture radar; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ALOS/PALSAR; AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON RIVER; AUXILIARY INFORMATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; DATA MINING ALGORITHM; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODED AREAS; HIGH WATER; HYDROLOGICAL YEARS; IMAGE DATES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; LANDSAT-5; LEVEL 4; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL IMAGE; POLYNOMIAL MODELS; REGRESSION MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SCANSAR; SEASONAL VARIATION; STUDY AREAS; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

ALGORITHMS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CARBON; DATA MINING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

FLOODS;

ALGORITHM; ALOS; FLOODPLAIN; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 84870905599     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.035     Document Type: Article

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