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Automatic Open Water Flood Detection from Sentinel-1 Multi-Temporal Imagery
- Source :
- Water, Vol 13, Iss 3392, p 3392 (2021), Water; Volume 13; Issue 23; Pages: 3392
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Many technical infrastructure operators manage facilities distributed over large areas. They face the problem of finding out if a flood hit a specific facility located in the open countryside. Physical inspection after every heavy rain is time and personnel consuming, and equipping all facilities with flood detection is expensive. Therefore, methods are being sought to ensure that these facilities are monitored at a minimum cost. One of the possibilities is using remote sensing, especially radar data regularly scanned by satellites. A significant challenge in this area was the launch of Sentinel-1 providing free-of-charge data with adequate spatial resolution and relatively high revisit time. This paper presents a developed automatic processing chain for flood detection in the open landscape from Sentinel-1 data. Flood detection can be started on-demand; however, it mainly focuses on autonomous near real-time monitoring. It is based on a combination of algorithms for multi-temporal change detection and histogram thresholding open-water detection. The solution was validated on five flood events in four European countries by comparing its results with flood delineation derived from reference datasets. Long-term tests were also performed to evaluate the potential for a false positive occurrence. In the statistical classification assessments, the mean value of user accuracy (producer accuracy) for open-water class reached 83% (65%). The developed solution typically provided flooded polygons in the same areas as the reference dataset, but of a smaller size. This fact is mainly attributed to the use of universal sensitivity parameters, independent of the specific location, which ensure almost complete successful suppression of false alarms.
- Subjects :
- synthetic aperture radar
flood
detection
Sentinel-1
Synthetic aperture radar
Flood myth
Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes
Computer science
Geography, Planning and Development
Real-time computing
Hydraulic engineering
Aquatic Science
Biochemistry
Thresholding
law.invention
Statistical classification
law
Histogram
Sensitivity (control systems)
Radar
TC1-978
TD201-500
Change detection
Water Science and Technology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20734441
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3392
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Water
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....49d3c845e56390e81b6666dc3d6c5b5f