Radar Satellite Imagery and Automatic Detection of Water Bodies

Abstract

System for mapping of water bodies in Slovenia and its immediate neighbourhood with Sentinel-1 radar satellites have implemented. Algorithms automatically detect presence of new data in the archive, download the data, analyse it, write the results, and upload them to a web portal. New acquisitions are currently available every six days, but this time will be halved when the second Sentinel-1 starts delivering the data.

Keywords

• water bodies
• sentinel-1
• radar
• floods