Assessment of "Mitch" hurricane damages in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador using ERS and SPOT images

Edmond Nezry; Francis Yakam-Simen; Paul P. Romeijn; Iwan Supit; Philippe Bally

doi:10.1117/12.413932

23 January 2001 Assessment of "Mitch" hurricane damages in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador using ERS and SPOT images

Edmond Nezry, Francis Yakam-Simen, Paul P. Romeijn, Iwan Supit, Philippe Bally

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Proceedings Volume 4171, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology II; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413932
Event: Europto Remote Sensing, 2000, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

The states of Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador have been toughly hit by the “Mitch” hurricane in the first days of November 1998. The extent of damages due to this hurricane, as well as their impact upon local economy were exceptional. In this framework, a remote sensing project was scrambled to provide a large scale evaluation of the damages suffered by the three countries. To reach this objective, new remote sensing products called DYNAMIC products have been designed. These products are, based on using, either RADAR satellite images, or Optical/RADAR satellite data fusion. The most efficient techniques have been applied to produce these products, thus enabling change detection at a very fine spatial scale (10x10 meters). Project schedule and operations, as well as the validation of its products are reported in this paper.

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Edmond Nezry, Francis Yakam-Simen, Paul P. Romeijn, Iwan Supit, and Philippe Bally "Assessment of "Mitch" hurricane damages in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador using ERS and SPOT images", Proc. SPIE 4171, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology II, (23 January 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413932

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