Floodplain friction parameterization in two-dimensional river flood models using vegetation heights derived from airborne scanning laser altimetry

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1711-1732

  Mason, David C ^a   Cobby, David M ^a   Horritt, Matthew S ^b   Bates, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed friction; River Severn; Segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODS; FRICTION; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PARAMETRIZATION;

RIVERS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; FRICTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LIDAR; PARAMETERIZATION; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0041313897     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1270     Document Type: Article

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