Flood mapping and flood dynamics of the mekong delta: ENVISAT-ASAR-WSM based time series analyses

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 687-715

  Kuenzer, Claudia ^a   Guo, Huadong ^b   Huth, Juliane ^a   Leinenkugel, Patrick ^a   Li, Xinwu ^b   Dech, Stefan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

Author keywords

Asar; Envisat; Feature extraction; Flood; Flood dynamics; Flood progression; Inundation; Mekong delta; Radar; Time series; Vietnam; Water detection; Wsm

Indexed keywords

ASAR; ENVISAT; INUNDATION; MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM; WATER DETECTION; WSM;

DYNAMICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FLOODS;

EID: 84874777399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5020687     Document Type: Article

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