Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images

Malaysia is one of the evident countries whose recurrence of floods proves that floods are getting worse. The northern peninsular of Malaysia has lost a lot of lives and property worth billions to the series of floods that have been occurring for many years. Many disaster management strategies have...

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Main Author: Dutsenwai, Hafsat Saleh
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/51412/25/HafsatSalehDutsenwaiMFGHT2014.pdf
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description Malaysia is one of the evident countries whose recurrence of floods proves that floods are getting worse. The northern peninsular of Malaysia has lost a lot of lives and property worth billions to the series of floods that have been occurring for many years. Many disaster management strategies have been adopted by the Malaysian government in handling these flood disasters but it is still a topic in the annual agenda. This research project aimed at using fusion techniques in mapping the flood extents in the northern peninsular Malaysia in order to contribute to the flood disaster eradication by extracting more and better information through the fusion of RadarSat 1 and TerraSAR-X images. The Principal Component Analysis was also used and compared with the fusion techniques which include the Hue Saturation and Value (HSV), the Brovey Transformation (BT), the Gram Schmidt (GS), and the Principal Component Spectral Sharpening (PCSS). The best principal component of the PCA, that is the PC2 which classified and compared with the classification of the other fusion techniques using Maximum likelihood (ML) and support Vector Machine (SVM). The results indicated BT technique has the highest overall accuracy of 70.9615% and kappa coefficient of 0.3418. This method showed relative improvement on the classification of the flooded and non-flooded area which was used to produce the flood extent Map that was further validated with the DEM data. The final results in this study showed that more information on the areas that are affected by the floods especially the extents, became more exposed after the classification of the fused images.
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spelling utm.eprints-514122020-07-13T03:55:21Z http://eprints.utm.my/51412/ Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images Dutsenwai, Hafsat Saleh G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing Malaysia is one of the evident countries whose recurrence of floods proves that floods are getting worse. The northern peninsular of Malaysia has lost a lot of lives and property worth billions to the series of floods that have been occurring for many years. Many disaster management strategies have been adopted by the Malaysian government in handling these flood disasters but it is still a topic in the annual agenda. This research project aimed at using fusion techniques in mapping the flood extents in the northern peninsular Malaysia in order to contribute to the flood disaster eradication by extracting more and better information through the fusion of RadarSat 1 and TerraSAR-X images. The Principal Component Analysis was also used and compared with the fusion techniques which include the Hue Saturation and Value (HSV), the Brovey Transformation (BT), the Gram Schmidt (GS), and the Principal Component Spectral Sharpening (PCSS). The best principal component of the PCA, that is the PC2 which classified and compared with the classification of the other fusion techniques using Maximum likelihood (ML) and support Vector Machine (SVM). The results indicated BT technique has the highest overall accuracy of 70.9615% and kappa coefficient of 0.3418. This method showed relative improvement on the classification of the flooded and non-flooded area which was used to produce the flood extent Map that was further validated with the DEM data. The final results in this study showed that more information on the areas that are affected by the floods especially the extents, became more exposed after the classification of the fused images. 2014-08 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/51412/25/HafsatSalehDutsenwaiMFGHT2014.pdf Dutsenwai, Hafsat Saleh (2014) Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:86579
spellingShingle G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
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Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images
title Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images
title_full Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images
title_fullStr Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images
title_full_unstemmed Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images
title_short Flood mapping of Northern Peninsular Malaysia using SAR images
title_sort flood mapping of northern peninsular malaysia using sar images
topic G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
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