An approach for flood monitoring by the combined use of Landsat 8 optical imagery and COSMO-SkyMed radar imagery

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 136, Issue , 2018, Pages 144-153

  Tong, Xiaohua ^a   Luo, Xin ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^a   Xie, Huan ^a   Chao, Wei ^a   Liu, Shuang ^a   Liu, Shijie ^a   Makhinov, A N ^b   Makhinova, A F ^b   Jiang, Yuying ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Active contour; Inundation analysis; SAR; Support vector machine; Water extraction

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; FLOOD MONITORING; INUNDATION ANALYSE; LANDSAT; LARGE-SCALES; OPTICAL IMAGERY; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; WATER EXTRACTION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COSMO-SKYMED; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOOD; LANDSAT; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA;

EID: 85043777778     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.11.006     Document Type: Article

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