Determining watershed response in data poor environments with remotely sensed small reservoirs as runoff gauges

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Liebe, J R ^a,b   Van De Giesen, N ^c   Andreini, M ^d   Walter, M T ^a   Steenhuis, T S ^a  

^a Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ENVISAT; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL RESULTS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; RESERVOIR FILLING; SEMI-ARID REGION; SMALL RESERVOIRS; SURFACE AREA; TOTAL RAINFALL; WATER STORAGE; WATERSHED AREAS;

ARID REGIONS; GAGES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WATERSHEDS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

DATA SET; ENVISAT-1; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION; WATERSHED;

AFRICA;

EID: 69249132466     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007369     Document Type: Article

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