Emergency flood monitoring and rescue need to first detect flood areas. This paper provides a fast and novel flood detection method and applies it to Gaofen-3 SAR images. The fully convolutional network (FCN), a variant of VGG16, is utilized for flood mapping in this paper. Considering the requirement of flood detection, we fine-tune the model to get higher accuracy results with shorter training time and fewer training samples. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, our proposed algorithm not only gives robust and accurate detection results but also significantly reduces the detection time.
Keywords: FCN; GF-3 satellite; SAR; flood detection.