“…4,5 In particular, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is widely used in water mapping applications-based on the low backscatter signal of water, 4,[6][7][8] but terrain effects 9 and the presence of high and dense inundated vegetation are known to induce errors. [10][11][12] And while the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) 13,14 could reduce the terrain effects and provide improved spatio-temporal accuracy, the high operational cost and the limited area coverage in comparison to data acquired through satellite systems, renders them unsuitable for wide-area monitoring applications (at regional or national level), or for remote areas (e.g., extensive wetlands), such as those discussed in the present research. The Sentinel-1 (S-1) A and B satellites launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) regularly provide SAR imagery (on a 6-day basis in Greece), at a spatial resolution of 10 m and with a swath of 250 km, when the ground range detected (GRD) interferometric wide (IW) mode product is considered.…”