Spatial Land Use Change Modeling Techniques

Al-sharif, Abubakr A. A.; Pradhan, Biswajeet; Abdullahi, Saleh

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54217-1_8

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“…A decline in the coherence value (or a complete decorrelation) is deemed to represent surface changes that have resulted from events and processes that disturbed or altered the arrangement of scatterers within a pixel [58][59][60][61]. Coherence-based change detections are more capable of and sensitive to detecting subtle surface changes that otherwise may not be noticeable in SAR amplitude images due to little changes and variations in backscattering intensity [47,[60][61][62].…”

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Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment of Extreme Weather Events Using Synthetic Aperture Radar and Auxiliary Data: A Case Study

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The Greater Houston metropolitan area has experienced recurring flooding events in the past two decades related to tropical cyclones and heavy inland rainfall. With the projected recurrence of severe weather events, an approach that outlines the susceptibility of different localities within the study area to potential floods based on analyses of the impacts from earlier events would be beneficial. We applied a novel C-band Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based flood detection method to map floodwater distribution following three recent severe weather events with the goal of identifying areas that are prone to future flood hazards. Attempts were made to calibrate and validate the C-band-based results and analyses to compensate for possible sources of error. These included qualitative and quantitative assessments on L-band aerial SAR data, as well as aerial imagery acquired after one of the events. The findings included the following: (1) most urban centers of Harris county, with few exceptions, are not believed to be prone to flooding hazards in contrast to the densely populated areas on the outskirts of Harris county; (2) nearly 44% of the mapped flood-prone areas lie within a 1 km distance of major drainage networks; (3) areas experiencing high subsidence rates have persistently experienced flooding, possibly exacerbated by morphological changes to the land surface induced by subsidence.

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