Uncertainty in calibrating flood propagation models with flood boundaries derived from synthetic aperture radar imagery

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 35, Issue , 2004, Pages 352-357

  Matgen, P ^a   Henry, J B ^b   Pappenberger, F ^c   De Fraipont, P ^b   Hoffmann, L ^a   Pfister, L ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Classification; Floods; Fuzzy logic; Performance; Remote sensing; SAR

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FORECASTING; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; HYDRAULIC MODELS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBSERVATORIES; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TRACKING RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTH OBSERVATION DATA; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; HYDRAULIC MODEL CALIBRATION; INUNDATION SIMULATIONS; MODEL STRUCTURAL ERROR; PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 43049132024     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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