A Bayesian Network for Flood Detection Combining SAR Imagery and Ancillary Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3612-3625

  D'Addabbo, Annarita ^a   Refice, Alberto ^a   Pasquariello, Guido ^a   Lovergine, Francesco P ^a   Capolongo, Domenico ^b   Manfreda, Salvatore ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks (BNs); data fusion; flood mapping; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) change detection; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometric SAR (InSAR) time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA FUSION; FLOODS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INFORMATION LAYERS; INFORMATION SOURCES; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR; REMOTE SENSING DATA; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COSMO-SKYMED; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTION METHOD; FLOOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING METHOD; METHODOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BASILICATA; ITALY;

EID: 84960540109     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2520487     Document Type: Article

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