Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-273-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-273-2015
Brief communication
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05 Feb 2015
Brief communication |  | 05 Feb 2015

Brief Communication: Contrast-stretching- and histogram-smoothness-based synthetic aperture radar image enhancement for flood map generation

F. Nazir, M. M. Riaz, A. Ghafoor, and F. Arif

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