Comparing four operational SAR-based water and flood detection approaches

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3519-3543

  Martinis, Sandro ^a   Kuenzer, Claudia ^a   Wendleder, Anna ^a   Huth, Juliane ^a   Twele, André ^a   Roth, Achim ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DECISION MAKING; FLOODS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; FLOOD DETECTIONS; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; HIGH PERFORMANCE ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE OBJECTS; PROCESSING CHAIN; REMOTE SENSING DATA;

DATA MINING;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X;

CHINA; GERMANY; MALI; NETHERLANDS; VIET NAM;

EID: 84937126397     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1060647     Document Type: Article

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