Water area extraction using RADARSAT SAR imagery combined with landsat imagery and terrain information

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 6652-6667

  Hong, Seunghwan ^a   Jang, Hyoseon ^a   Kim, Namhoon ^a   Sohn, Hong Gyoo ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flood mapping; Object based classification; SAR sensors; Thresholding method

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; FLOODS; INFORMATION USE; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AMPLITUDE INFORMATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; FLOOD MAPPING; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; SAR SENSORS; THRESHOLDING METHODS; WATER EXTRACTION METHODS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84928686142     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150306652     Document Type: Article

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