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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
Volume 38, Issue 13, Pages 3831-3850Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1306143
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- ESA [4000112375/14/I-NB]
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This article presents for the first time the combination of dual-polarimetric C-band Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and quad-polarimetric L-band ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 imagery for mapping of flooded areas with a special focus on flooded vegetation. L-band SAR data is well suited for mapping of flooded vegetation, while C-band enables an accurate extraction open water areas. Polarimetric decomposition-based unsupervised Wishart classification is combined with object-based post-classification refinement and the integration of spatial contextual information and global auxiliary data. In eight different scenarios, focusing on single datasets or fusion of classification results of several ones, respectively, different polarimetric decomposition and classification principles, including the entropy/anisotropy/alpha and the Freeman-Durden-Wishart classification, were investigated. The helix scattering component of the Yamaguchi decomposition, derived from ALOS-2 imagery, showed high suitability to refine the Sentinel-1-based detection of flooded vegetation. A test site at the Evros River (Greek/Turkish border region) was chosen, which was affected by a flooding event that occurred in spring 2015. The validation was based on high spatial resolution optical WorldView-2 imagery acquired with short temporal delay to the SAR data.
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