Between September 17th and 19th 2010 heavy rains captured the area of Slovenia. A big part of the area of Slovenia was flooded. In the activation of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters the series of radar images was achieved. The paper presents the study of flood dynamics in the surroundings of the capital Ljubljana. Radar images enabled satisfactory near-real-time comprehension of flood dynamics, however not in urban areas. There were also some problems with high-grown plants (trees, crops). In these areas combinations with other data are going to be studied. Especially optical satellite images and digital elevation model (DEM) with its derivates (heights, slope, shadows) can improve the detection of floods in these parts of these areas. The short paper presents the results of flood detection produced by radar images. It also discusses the deficiencies of radar images for small water area detection. These deficiencies might be eliminated using additional data in the next step.
T. Veljanovski et al. (2011). Flooded areas determination using radar satellite images in Slovenia 2010. Proc. of the ESA-EUSC-JRC 2011, Image Information Mining conference. paper 34, p. 141-144
