Automated detection of storm damage in forest areas by analyzing TerraSAR-X data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1672-1675

  Thiele, Antje ^a,b   Boldt, Markus ^b   Hinz, Stefan ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

Author keywords

change detection; forest areas; RADAR; remote sensing; storm event

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; AUTOMATED DETECTION; CHANGE DETECTION; CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS; FAST ESTIMATION; FOREST AREA; FOREST BORDERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE DATA; LINE EXTRACTION; MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA; OPTICAL DATA; SPACE-BORNE SAR SENSORS; SPACE-BORNE SENSOR; STORM DAMAGE; STORM EVENTS; TERRASAR-X; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

GEOLOGY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SIGNAL DETECTION; STORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; MAPPING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84873205052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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