A Bayesian Network for Flood Detection Combining SAR Imagery and Ancillary Data
- 1 June 2016
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Vol. 54 (6), 3612-3625
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2016.2520487
Abstract
Accurate flood mapping is important for both planning activity during emergencies and as a support for the successive assessment of damaged areas. A valuable information source for such a procedure can be remote sensing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. However, flood scenarios are typical examples of complex situations in which different factors have to be considered to provide accurate and robust interpretation of the situation on the ground. For this reason, a data fusion approach of remote sensing data with ancillary information can be particularly useful. In this work, a Bayesian Network (BN) is proposed to integrate remotely sensed data, such as multi-temporal SAR intensity images and InSAR coherence data, with geomorphic and other ground information. The methodology is tested on a case study regarding a flood occurred in the Basilicata region (Italy) on December 2013, monitored using a time series of COSMO-SkyMed data. It is shown that the synergetic use of different information layers can help to detect more precisely the areas affected by the flood, reducing false alarms and missed identifications which may affect algorithms based on data from a single source. The produced flood maps are compared to data obtained independently from the analysis of optical images; the comparison indicates that the proposed methodology is able to reliably follow the temporal evolution of the phenomenon, assigning high probability to areas most likely to be flooded, in spite of their heterogeneous temporal SAR/InSAR signatures, reaching accuracies of up to 89%Keywords
Funding Information
- Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) within the “Apulia Space” PON project (PON03PE_00067_6)
- Research Project PRIN 2011
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