Sensitivity analyses of satellite rainfall retrieval and sampling error on flood prediction uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 130-139

  Hossain, Faisal ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a   Dinku, Tufa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood prediction uncertainty; Infrared; Passive microwave; Rainfall retrieval error

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOODS; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLOOD PREDICTION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; RAINFALL RETRIEVAL; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 1242286434     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.818341     Document Type: Article

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