Suitability of SAR imagery for automatic flood mapping in the Lower Mekong Basin

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2857-2874

  Greifeneder, Felix ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Sabel, Daniel ^a   Naeimi, Vahid ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MAPPING; RADAR SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; INUNDATION MAPPINGS; LARGE DATA VOLUMES; MEKONG RIVER BASINS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

FLOOD; MAPPING; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MEKONG BASIN;

EID: 84897494034     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.890299     Document Type: Article

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