Use of SAR data for detecting floodwater in urban and agricultural areas: The role of the interferometric coherence

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1532-1544

  Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Chini, Marco ^b   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^c   Boni, Giorgio ^a,d  

^a CIMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence; COSMO SkyMed (CSK); Floods; Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; WATER LEVELS;

ACQUISITION PLAN; AGRICULTURAL AREAS; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; FLOOD MANAGEMENT; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC DATA; OPERATIONAL SERVICE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COSMO-SKYMED; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY;

EMILIA;

EID: 84944564521     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2482001     Document Type: Article

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