Improving flood risk management in the city of Lisbon: Developing a detailed and updated map of imperviousness using satellite imagery

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Abstract

The spatial distribution and extent of pervious and impervious areas in the city are important variables for planning, mitigating, preparing and responding to potential urban flooding events. Remote sensing constitutes a valuable data source to derive land cover information required for flood risk assessment. The present paper describes the generation of a Land Cover Map for the city of Lisbon, Portugal. The data source is an IKONOS-2 pansharp image, from 2008, with a spatial resolution of 1 m, and a normalized Digital Surface Model (nDSM) from 2006. The methodology was based on the extraction of features of interest, namely: vegetation, soil and impervious surfaces. It is demonstrated that using a methodology based on Very-High Resolution (VHR) images, quick updating of detailed land cover information is possible and can be used to support decisions in a crisis situation where official maps are generally outdated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTopics in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision
EditorsJoão Manuel R.S. Tavares, Renato M. Natal Jorge
Place of PublicationDordrecht
PublisherSpringer
Pages291-305
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-94-007-0726-9
ISBN (Print)978-94-007-0725-2, 978-94-017-8180-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics
Volume8
ISSN (Print)2212-9391
ISSN (Electronic)2212-9413

Keywords

  • ArcGIS
  • Asphalt
  • IKONOS
  • Landsat
  • Permeability

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