Satellites as the Panacea to transboundary limitations for longer term flood forecasting?

Water International

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 376-379

  Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; International river basins; Long term forecasting; Multi user decision support; Satellite rainfall estimation; Transboundary rivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849110228     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060708692217     Document Type: Review

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