Detection of floods and heavy rain using Cosmo-SkyMed data: The event in Northwestern Italy of November 2011

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3026-3029

  Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Chini, Marco ^b   Marzano, Frank S ^a   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Mori, S ^a   Guerriero, Leila ^c   Boni, Giorgio ^d   Candela, Laura ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d CIMA Research Foundation   (Italy)

^e ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed; Floods; Rain; SAR

Indexed keywords

ANCILLARY DATA; AUTOMATIC METHOD; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; COSMO-SKYMED; DETECTION ACCURACY; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HEAVY RAINS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LAND COVER; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; SAR; SAR IMAGES; SHAPE FEATURES; STANDARD DEVIATION; WATER SURFACE; WATERBODIES;

BACKSCATTERING; FLOODS; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOLOGY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84873199117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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