Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13040639
Keywords
Typhoon Hagibis; inundation; backscattering model; Sentinel-1
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- JSPS KAKENHI [17H02066]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H02066] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This study proposed a quick analysis procedure using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 SAR intensity images to estimate inundations due to Typhoon Hagibis in Japan. By detecting and extracting the flooded state-managed rivers in Ibaraki Prefecture, it successfully identified 74% of the inundated areas.
Typhoon Hagibis passed through Japan on October 12, 2019, bringing heavy rainfall over half of Japan. Twelve banks of seven state-managed rivers collapsed, flooding a wide area. Quick and accurate damage proximity maps are helpful for emergency responses and relief activities after such disasters. In this study, we propose a quick analysis procedure to estimate inundations due to Typhoon Hagibis using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 SAR intensity images. The study area was Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, including two flooded state-managed rivers, Naka and Kuji. First, the completely flooded areas were detected by two traditional methods, the change detection and the thresholding methods. By comparing the results in a part of the affected area with our field survey, the change detection was adopted due to its higher recall accuracy. Then, a new index combining the average value and the standard deviation of the differences was proposed for extracting partially flooded built-up areas. Finally, inundation maps were created by merging the completely and partially flooded areas. The final inundation map was evaluated via comparison with the flooding boundary produced by the Geospatial Information Authority (GSI) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan. As a result, 74% of the inundated areas were able to be identified successfully using the proposed quick procedure.
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