Remote sensing image analysis in the application to flood monitoring and damage assessment
Event details
| Date | 15.04.2014 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:15 |
| Speaker | Dr Gabriele Moser, IPRS (Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing), Università di Genoa, IT |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
In the application to monitoring flood risks and to damage assessment after flood events, effectively exploiting the information offered by current satellite missions for Earth observation requires both accurate image analysis methods, to extract the necessary thematic information, and the capability to interpret this information through physically based models of the observed processes. To achieve this joint goal, a multidisciplinary approach, which integrates remote sensing image analysis and geophysical sciences, such as, in the case of flood risks, hydrometeorology, is necessary. This seminar will address the key issues involved in the exploitation of satellite data in the application to flood risk. The challenges and the methodological approaches involved in the multidisciplinary combination of image analysis and hydrometeorology will be discussed with the purpose of guiding and optimizing the process of information extraction from satellite data according to the requirements of civil protection from floods. Special attention will be devoted to the phases of emergency and post-disaster damage assessment, and to the roles of supervised classification and unsupervised change detection methods for thematic information mapping from remote sensing images. Examples of experimental results associated with recent events and relevant case studies will be discussed.
In the application to monitoring flood risks and to damage assessment after flood events, effectively exploiting the information offered by current satellite missions for Earth observation requires both accurate image analysis methods, to extract the necessary thematic information, and the capability to interpret this information through physically based models of the observed processes. To achieve this joint goal, a multidisciplinary approach, which integrates remote sensing image analysis and geophysical sciences, such as, in the case of flood risks, hydrometeorology, is necessary. This seminar will address the key issues involved in the exploitation of satellite data in the application to flood risk. The challenges and the methodological approaches involved in the multidisciplinary combination of image analysis and hydrometeorology will be discussed with the purpose of guiding and optimizing the process of information extraction from satellite data according to the requirements of civil protection from floods. Special attention will be devoted to the phases of emergency and post-disaster damage assessment, and to the roles of supervised classification and unsupervised change detection methods for thematic information mapping from remote sensing images. Examples of experimental results associated with recent events and relevant case studies will be discussed.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EESS - IIE
Contact
- Dr Devis Tuia, LASIG