Advancing PolSAR methods for rapid mapping of floods, landslides, volcanoes and fires using polarimetric L-Band SAR data

Kurzfassung

The intent of this proposal was it to develop pre-operational methods based on L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery for the use of crisis mapping activities (especially floods, fires, landslides and volcanic eruptions) supporting civil protection agencies and decision makers for disaster relief operations. During the course of the proposal duration, we implemented new and optimized existing procedures for SAR polarimetry for near-real time processing, analysis and thematic product generation based on polarimetric ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 data