Flood damage assessment through multitemporal COSMO-SkyMed data and hydrodynamic models: The Albania 2010 case study

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

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2848-2855

  Pulvirenti, Luca ^a,b   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^b   Boni, Giorgio ^a,c   Fiorini, Mattia ^a   Rudari, Roberto ^a  

^a CIMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed (CSK); floods; hydrodynamic model; SAR

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; DYNAMICS; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

COSMO-SKYMED (CSK); DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR; MULTI-TEMPORAL SERIES; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT; SAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84906949109     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2328012     Document Type: Article

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