Flood delineation from synthetic aperture radar data with the help of a priori knowledge from historical acquisitions and digital elevation models in support of near-real-time flood mapping

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8538, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schlaffer, Stefan ^a   Hollaus, Markus ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Matgen, Patrick ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; ENVISAT; Flood mapping; HYDROSHEDS; Remote sensing; Sentinel 1; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVISAT; FLOOD MAPPING; HYDROSHEDS; SENTINEL-1;

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

FLOODS;

EID: 84875664245     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.974503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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