Flood and landslide applications of near real-time satellite rainfall products

Natural Hazards

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-294

  Hong, Yang ^a,b   Adler, Robert F ^b   Negri, Andrew ^b   Huffman, George J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood; Landslide; Precipitation; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 35048896882     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-9106-x     Document Type: Article

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