Effect of ascending/descending pass for treshold value with bandmath

hello,
i am working on flood maps generation using time series imagery of sentinel-1. i am noticed there are two different pass on Sentinel ; ascending and descending. i want to apply the same treshold value of the backscatter to all images band (sigma_vv) to generate my flood maps. i want to do it using bandmath “if Sigma0VV_db <-15 then 1 else NaN”_ . The area is relatively flat anyway…

so my question, is it correct to apply the same treshold backscatter value to all images ascending and descending? or do i need to apply different value for each pass? how significant will the differences of the pass affect my result?

thank you and much appreciation…

Calibration ensures that your values (Sigma0) are comparable between the images. However, if your water surface is influenced by vegetation or waves the threshold might not work for all of them.

great! thank you so much for the answer.
anyway, did you know any published reference that review this certain topic?

thank you again…

thousands :smiley:
Just search for “SAR” + “water bodies” or “thresholding” or “water masking”…

http://www.un-spider.org/advisory-support/recommended-practices/recommended-practice-flood-mapping/step-by-step
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2015.1060647?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=tres20
https://eo-college.org/lessons/water/

thanks a lot…