Detecting flooded areas with machine learning techniques: Case study of the Selška Sora river flash flood in September 2007

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lamovec, Peter ^a   Veljanovski, Tatjana ^a,b   Mikoš, Matjaž ^c   Oštir, Krištof ^a,b  

^a Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts   (Slovenia)

^b Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

digital terrain model; ensembles; flash floods; machine learning; satellite images; training test points

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FLOODS; LANDFORMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SATELLITES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ENSEMBLES; FLASH FLOOD; J48 DECISION TREE ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGE; SATELLITE IMAGES;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 84897899489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073564     Document Type: Article

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