Lessons learned from using COSMO-SkyMed imagery for flood mapping: Some case studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8536, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Chini, Marco ^b   Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Marzano, Frank S ^a   Mori, Saverio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed; Floods; SAR

Indexed keywords

CLOUDY CONDITIONS; COSMO-SKYMED; COSMO-SKYMED MISSION; SAR; SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FLOODS;

EID: 84875665605     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.977646     Document Type: Conference Paper

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