High resolution COSMO/SkyMed SAR data analysis for civil protection from flooding events

Author

Boni, Giorgio ; Castelli, Fabio ; Ferraris, Luca ; Pierdicca, Nazzareno ; Serpico, Sebastiano ; Siccardi, Franco

Author_Institution

Int. Res. Center for Environ. Monitoring, Savona

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The paper focuses on the multiple roles and advantages of the use of remotely sensed, especially COSMO/SkyMed, imagery in the context of flooding-event prevention and management, describing a support system for civil protection from floods and some of the image processing and analysis techniques involved in.

Keywords

disasters; emergency services; floods; geophysical signal processing; hydrological techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; COSMO-SkyMed SAR data analysis; COSMO-SkyMed images; civil protection; flooding event management; flooding event prevention; image analysis; image processing; remote sensing; Computerized monitoring; Data analysis; Floods; Image classification; Image resolution; Industrial electronics; Protection; Prototypes; Remote monitoring; Soil; SAR; change detection; data fusion; flood mapping; fuzzy approach; image classification; probability density function estimation; scattering mechanisms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422716

Filename

4422716