Satellite remote sensing of river inundation area, stage, and discharge: A review

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1427-1439

  Smith, Laurence C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Landsat; Remote sensing; Review; River inundation; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED IMAGING; MAPPING; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR ALTIMETERS; RIVER INUNDATION;

RIVERS;

REMOTE SENSING; RIVER INUNDATION;

EID: 0031200845     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(199708)11:10<1427::aid-hyp473>3.0.co;2-s     Document Type: Review

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