Flood extent mapping for Namibia using change detection and thresholding with SAR

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Long, Stephanie ^a   Fatoyinbo, Temilola E ^b   Policelli, Frederick ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

flooding; remote sensing; SAR

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OIL WELL FLOODING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CHANGE DETECTION; EXTENT MAPPINGS; FLOOD DETECTIONS; FLOODING SEASON; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; RADARSAT-2 IMAGES; SAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY;

FLOODS;

ENVISAT-1; FLOODING; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; PIXEL; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRESHOLD; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NAMIBIA; ZAMBEZI;

EID: 84928096635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035002     Document Type: Article

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