Title :
Mapping of flooding in the Alessandria area with ERS
Author :
Solbø, Stian ; Pettinato, Simone ; Paloscia, Simonetta ; Santi, Emanuele ; Brusotti, Paolo ; Solheim, Inger
Author_Institution :
NORUT IT, Tromso
Abstract :
We demonstrate a fully automatic flood detector for non-forested areas on an ERS SAR image of the 1994 flooding incident in Alessandria, Italy. The flood detector is capable of detecting the majority of the flooded area. However, there are some undetected flooded areas which exhibit high backscatter caused by double bouncing from flooded vegetation
Keywords :
backscatter; floods; hydrological techniques; radar detection; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; AD 1994; Alessandria area; ERS SAR image; Italy; automatic flood detector; backscatter; double bouncing method; flood mapping; flooded vegetation; nonforested areas; Backscatter; Detectors; Floods; Layout; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radar scattering; Risk management; Urban areas; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370204
