Using WorldView-2 imagery to track flooding in Thailand in a multi-asset sensorweb

David McLaren; Joshua Doubleday; Steve Chien

doi:10.1117/12.919493

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11 May 2012 Using WorldView-2 imagery to track flooding in Thailand in a multi-asset sensorweb

David McLaren; Joshua Doubleday; Steve Chien

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Proceedings Volume 8390, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XVIII; 83901G (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919493
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

For the flooding seasons of 2011-2012 multiple space assets were used in a "sensorweb" to track major flooding in Thailand. Worldview-2 multispectral data was used in this effort and provided extremely high spatial resolution (2m / pixel) multispectral (8 bands at 0.45-1.05 μ m spectra) data from which mostly automated workflows derived surface water extent and volumetric water information for use by a range of NGO and national authorities. We first describe how Worldview-2 and its data was integrated into the overall flood tracking sensorweb. We next describe the use of Support Vector Machine learning techniques that were used to derive surface water extent classifiers. Then we describe the fusion of surface water extent and digital elevation map (DEM) data to derive volumetric water calculations. Finally we discuss key future work such as speeding up the workflows and automating the data registration process (the only portion of the workflow requiring human input).

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David McLaren, Joshua Doubleday, and Steve Chien "Using WorldView-2 imagery to track flooding in Thailand in a multi-asset sensorweb", Proc. SPIE 8390, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XVIII, 83901G (11 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919493

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