A Prototype System for Flood Monitoring Based on Flood Forecast Combined with COSMO-SkyMed and Sentinel-1 Data

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

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2794-2805

  Boni, Giorgio ^a,b   Ferraris, Luca ^a,b   Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Squicciarino, Giuseppe ^a   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^c   Candela, Laura ^d   Pisani, Anna Rita ^d   Zoffoli, Simona ^d   Onori, Roberta ^e   Proietti, Chiara ^e   Pagliara, Paola ^e  

^a CIMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

^e Italian Civil Protection Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed (CSK); flood forecasting model; floods; Sentinel 1 (S 1); synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; MAPPING; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; CIVIL PROTECTION; FLOOD MANAGEMENT; FLOOD MONITORING; FLOOD PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL SERVICE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RADAR SIGNATURE;

MONITORING;

ALGORITHM; COSMO-SKYMED; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FORECASTING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SATELLITE SENSOR; SENTINEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ITALY; PO RIVER;

EID: 84957706133     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2514402     Document Type: Article

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