A change detection approach to flood mapping in Urban areas using TerraSAR-X

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2417-2430

  Giustarini, Laura ^a   Hostache, Renaud ^a   Matgen, Patrick ^a   Schumann, Guy J P ^b   Bates, Paul D ^b   Mason, David C ^c  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; flood mapping; image processing; satellites; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PHOTOGRAPHY; FLOOD MAPPING; HYBRID METHODOLOGIES; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; MAN-MADE STRUCTURES; MAPPING CAPABILITIES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; FLOODS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAPPING; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; FLOOD FREQUENCY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84875707692     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2210901     Document Type: Article

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