Sequential assimilation of remotely sensed water stages in flood inundation models

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn , Issue 316, 2007, Pages 78-88

  Matgen, Patrick ^a   Schumann, Guy ^a,b   Pappenberger, Florian ^c   Pfister, Laurent ^a  

^a Public Research Centre   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Flood mundation modelling; HEC RAS; Remote sensing; Sequential data assimilation; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FLOOD CONTROL; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPACE OPTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRACKING RADAR;

BASIN CHARACTERISTICS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; EARTH OBSERVATION DATUMS; FLOOD EVENTS; FLOOD INUNDATION MODELS; FLOOD PREDICTIONS; HEC-RAS; HIGH PRECISIONS; LUXEMBOURG; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; RADAR IMAGERIES; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; SEQUENTIAL DATA ASSIMILATION; TIME CONTINUITIES; TIME STEPS; WATER SURFACES;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; FLOOD; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 55749084939     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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