Comparative Study of Flooding Area Detection with SAR Images based on Thresholding and Difference Images Acquired Before and After the Flooding

Comparative study of flooding area detection with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images based on thresholding and difference images acquired before and after the flooding is conducted. Method for flooding, landslide and sediment disaster area detections with SAR is proposed. The following two different methods for flooding detection are common. It is not so easy to determine a threshold for the thresholding method while subtraction method between before and after images of a disaster occurrence has the disadvantage that false disaster areas are detected due to a variation of ground cover targets. Therefore, a comparative study between both methods is required. Its application is demonstrated for the disaster which is occurred in Saga Prefecture, Japan due to a long term of heavy rain during from the begging of August to the middle of August in 2021. Through experiments with Sentinel-1 SAR imagery data, it is found that the proposed method works well for the detection of the disaster.

@article{Arai2021,
  title     = {Comparative Study of Flooding Area Detection with SAR Images based on Thresholding and Difference Images Acquired Before and After the Flooding},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {12},
  number    = {11},
  year      = {2021},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Kohei Arai},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121109},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121109}
}