Enhanced Super-Resolution Mapping of Urban Floods Based on the Fusion of Support Vector Machine and General Regression Neural Network

Linyi Li, Yun Chen, Tingbao Xu, Kaifang Shi, Chang Huang, Rui Liu, Binbin Lu, Lingkui Meng

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Abstract

Super-resolution mapping of urban flood (SMUF) is one of the hotspots in remote sensing and urban environment research. In this letter, a new SMUF method based on the fusion of support vector machine and general regression neural network (FSVMGRNN) was proposed to achieve enhanced performance. An SVM-SMUF algorithm was developed and a fusion criterion was formulated. Then, the FSVMGRNN-SMUF algorithm was developed. The results of FSVMGRNN-SMUF were evaluated using Landsat 8 OLI imagery of two representative cities in China. FSVMGRNN-SMUF yielded the most accurate SMUF results among the five SMUF methods according to visual comparisons and quantitative comparisons. The mapping accuracy of FSVMGRNN-SMUF related to the kernel functions was also analyzed and discussed. The results of this letter will help to boost practical applications of median-low resolution remote sensing images in urban flooding mapping, and to strengthen the means for monitoring and assessing urban flooding disasters.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8636408
Pages (from-to)1269-1273
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Volume16
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2019
Externally publishedYes

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