Monitoring flood evolution in vegetated areas using cosmo-skymed data: The tuscany 2009 case study

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1807-1816

  Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Chini, Marco ^b   Guerriero, Leila ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed; floods; multitemporal analysis; SAR

Indexed keywords

COSMO-SKYMED; FUZZY LOGIC CLASSIFIERS; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; SAR; SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FLOODS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; FLOOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84881037964     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2219509     Document Type: Article

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