Automated quantification of surface water inundation in wetlands using optical satellite imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  De Vries, Ben ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Lang, Megan W ^b   Jones, John W ^c   Huang, Wenli ^a   Creed, Irena F ^d   Carroll, Mark L ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Inundation; Landsat; Sub pixel water fraction; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FLOODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; INUNDATION; LANDSAT; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; WATER FRACTION;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 85028321072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9080807     Document Type: Article

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