Role of passive microwave remote sensing in improving flood forecasts

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 112-116

  Bindlish, Rajat ^a   Crow, Wade T ^b   Jackson, Thomas J ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Hydrology; Microwave remote sensing; Rainfall runoff modeling; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NASA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

ADAPTIVE MODELS; AFFECTED AREAS; AQUA SATELLITES; AUSTRALIA; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; FLOOD FORECASTS; FLOOD PEAKS; HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING; INFORMATION CONCERNING; LAND SURFACE CONDITIONS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETERS; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; QUEENSLAND; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW FORECASTS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURES; TIME SCALES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 58149512038     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2002754     Document Type: Article

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