Implications of classification of methodological decisions in flooding analysis from Hurricane Katrina

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3877-3891

  Khatami, Reza ^a   Mountrakis, Giorgos ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Classification process; Flooding assessment; Hurricane katrina; Racial distribution

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; CENSUS DATA; CENSUS TRACTS; CHANGE DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; COMPLEX METHODS; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; FLOODED AREAS; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; HURRICANE KATRINA; LANDSAT-5; LARGE-SCALE MONITORING; NATURAL DISASTERS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RACIAL DISTRIBUTION; REFERENCE DATA; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; SOCIAL STUDY; STUDY AREAS; T-TESTS;

ALGORITHMS; HURRICANES; NEURAL NETWORKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS;

FLOODS;

EID: 84872343869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4123877     Document Type: Article

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