Evaluation of on-line DEMs for flood inundation modeling

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1831-1843

  Sanders, Brett F ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

DEM; DTM; Flood inundation; Flood modeling; IfSAR; LiDAR; SRTM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; OPTICAL RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; FLOOD INUNDATION; FLOOD MODELING; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION;

FLOODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FLOODS; FORECASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; OPTICAL RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIDAR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 34248225364     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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