Potential role of passive microwave remote sensing in improving flood forecasts

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1866-1869

  Bindlish, Rajat ^a   Crow, Wade T ^b   Jackson, Thomas J ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b Remote Sensing and Modeling Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; Floods; Hydrology; Microwave remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SENSING RADIOMETER (AMSR-E); MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; NATURAL HAZARDS; SOIL MOISTURE;

DATA REDUCTION; FLOODS; HAZARDS; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 15944385713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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