A fully automated TerraSAR-X based flood service

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages 203-212

  Martinis, Sandro ^a   Kersten, Jens ^a   Twele, André ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Disaster; Floods; Fuzzy logic; Remote sensing; SAR

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATION THEORY; DISASTERS; ELECTROPLATING SHOPS; EMERGENCY SERVICES; FLOODS; FUZZY LOGIC; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION METHODOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUZZY LOGIC BASED APPROACH; POST CLASSIFICATION; SAR; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS;

DATA HANDLING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MAPPING METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; TERRASAR-X;

GERMANY; MONTENEGRO; THAILAND;

EID: 85027953389     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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