SAR and InSAR for flood monitoring: Examples with COSMO-SkyMed data

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

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2711-2722

  Refice, Alberto ^a   Capolongo, Domenico ^b   Pasquariello, Guido ^a   Daaddabbo, Annarita ^a   Bovenga, Fabio ^a   Nutricato, Raffaele ^c   Lovergine, Francesco P ^a   Pietranera, Luca ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c Geophysical Application Processing ^*  (Italy)

^d Baxter SPA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayes procedures; change detection; flood monitoring; synthetic aperture radar interferometry

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COHERENT SCATTERING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTERFEROMETRY;

BAYES PROCEDURE; CHANGE DETECTION; FLOOD MONITORING; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; MANUAL IDENTIFICATION; PROBABILISTIC MAPS; SCATTERING RESPONSE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84906948179     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2305165     Document Type: Article

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