Title :
Contrast enhancement based flood monitoring
Author :
Nazir, Fakhera ; Riaz, M.M. ; Ghafoor, Abdul ; Arif, Fahim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Software Eng., Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract :
A three step based contrast enhancement technique is proposed for flood monitoring. The proposed technique takes pre and post images and apply different processing steps for generating flood map quickly without user interaction which is used by disaster management and rehabilitation authorities. A specific pre processing phase “contrast enhancement”, is also proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed technique provides better output quality (better visual results and remove unwanted artifacts) compared to state of art existing technique.
Keywords :
disasters; emergency management; floods; hydrological techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; disaster management authorities; flood map; flood monitoring; output quality; processing steps; rehabilitation authorities; specific preprocessing phase contrast enhancement; synthetic aperture radar imagery; three-step based contrast enhancement technique; unwanted artifacts; user interaction; Coherence; Histograms; Image segmentation; Monitoring; Rivers; Synthetic aperture radar; Visualization; Flood monitoring; contrast enhancement; synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems (ISPACS), 2013 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Naha
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6360-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISPACS.2013.6704607