Using altimetry waveform data and ancillary information from SRTM, landsat, and MODIS to retrieve river characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1869-1881

  Enjolras, Vivien M ^a   Rodriguez, Ernesto ^b  

^a THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Europe; Hydrology; Waveform

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; ALTIMETER WAVEFORM; ALTIMETRY; ANCILLARY DATA; APRIORI; ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; CONTINENTAL BASINS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; EUROPE; FITTING METHOD; FORECASTING SKILL; GTOPO30; LANDSAT; LARGE RIVERS; RE-TRACKING; REAL-TIME PREDICTION; RIVER CROSSINGS; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPACEBORNE RADAR; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE; WATER CROSSINGS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM; WAVEFORM DATA; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPECTROMETERS; TRACKING RADAR; WATER;

RIVERS;

ALTIMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; RIVER; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LENA RIVER; MEUSE RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349131194     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2006365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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