Wetland monitoring using the curvelet-based change detection method on polarimetric SAR imagery

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1036-1051

  Schmitt, Andreas ^a   Brisco, Brian ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change detection; Curvelets; Flood monitoring; Flooded vegetation; Image enhancement; Polarimetric decomposition; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; POLARIMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

CHANGE DETECTION; CURVELETS; DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM; DOUBLE-BOUNCE SCATTERINGS; FLOOD MONITORING; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; IMAGE COMPARISON; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; FLOOD WAVE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLAND;

EID: 84885341302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w5031036     Document Type: Article

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