Flood area mapping is an integral part of disaster management operation which gets value
when the details about inundated region has been made available in real time mode as well …

In this study, an extensive flood in Estonia during spring 2010 was mapped with TerraSAR-X
data acquired over both open and forested areas. This was the first time when a large scale …

This thesis is an outcome of the project “Flood and damage assessment using very high
resolution SAR data”(SAR-HQ), which is embedded in the interdisciplinary oriented RIMAX …

Globally, floods are attributed to be one of the leading natural hazards responsible for
recurrent major economic losses, population affected, and mortality. The rapid assessment …

Les inondations sont les catastrophes naturelles les plus fréquentes dans le monde
affectant le plus grand nombre d'individus chaque année. Si le nombre de décès liés à ces …

A flood is defined as “an unusually high stage in a river.” In other words, it is a level at which
the water overflows banks of an established watercourse, such as a river, stream, or …

1.1. Background Recent advances in science and technology have certainly opened up new
possibilities, but at the same time they have increased mankind's responsibilities. Mankind's …

[Dissertation Title] Page 1 THE POTENTIAL FOR AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
(SAR) TO PERFORM NEAR REAL-TIME RAPID AND ACCURATE CHARACTERIZATION OF …