An approach to monitor river catchment with PAL SAR satellite data

Author

Ahmed, Tasneem ; Garg, Akanksha ; Singh, Dharmendra ; Raman, Balasubramanian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., Indian Inst. of Technol. Roorkee, Roorkee, India

fYear

2014

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

One of the main application of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is developing the monitoring system for various applications like land cover and land use dynamics, vegetation mapping, canopy characterization and natural hazards by discriminating the change areas between two different dates images. In this paper, KLT (Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) tracker has been applied on two different dated (i.e. April, 2010 and April, 2011) ALOS PALSAR (Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) fully polarimetric data for tracking the Solani River (nearby Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India) and the changes have been observed by applying change detection techniques. Image differencing and image ratioing have been used to classify the temporal changes in Solani River as `change´ and `no change´ pixels on the basis of individual tracked pixel and spatial analysis of pixels.

Keywords

hydrological techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; rivers; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; AD 2010 04; AD 2011 04; ALOS PALSAR fully polarimetric data; Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar; India; KLT tracker; Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi tracker; PALSAR satellite data; Roorkee; Solani River catchment monitoring; Uttarakhand; canopy characterization; change detection techniques; image differencing; image ratioing; land cover; land use dynamics; monitoring system; natural hazards; no-change pixels; spatial analysis; synthetic aperture radar data; temporal changes; tracked pixel; vegetation mapping; Image color analysis; Monitoring; Radar tracking; Rivers; Synthetic aperture radar; Tracking; Vegetation mapping; CPR; Change detection; KLT tracker; PALSAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2014 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gwalior

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6499-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIINFS.2014.7036639

Filename

7036639