High-resolution 3-D flood information from radar imagery for flood hazard management

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1715-1725

  Schumann, Guy ^a,b,c   Hostache, Renaud ^d   Puech, Christian ^d   Hoffmann, Lucien ^b   Matgen, Patrick ^b   Pappenberger, Florian ^e,f   Pfister, Laurent ^b  

^a IEEE   (Luxembourg)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 D hydraulic model; Flood information mapping; Light detecting and ranging (lidar) digital elevation model (DEM); Regression analysis; SAR data uncertainty; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); FLOOD HAZARD MANAGEMENT; FLOOD INFORMATION MAPPING; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS;

DISASTER PREVENTION; HYDRAULIC MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FLOODS;

EID: 34249824312     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.888103     Document Type: Article

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