Developing a flood monitoring system from remotely sensed data for the Limpopo basin

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1709-1714

  Asante, Kwabena O ^a   Macuacua, Rodrigues D ^b   Artan, Guleid A ^a   Lietzow, Ronald W ^a   Verdin, James P ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Administração Regional de Águas do Sul   (Mozambique)

^c US Geological Survev Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Rainfall effects; Rivers; Time series

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; STORMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FLOOD HAZARDS; LIMPOPO BASINS; RAINFALL EFFECTS; STREAM-FLOW;

FLOOD CONTROL;

EID: 34249858371     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.883147     Document Type: Article

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