Vulnerability assessment of combined impacts of sea level rise and coastal flooding for China's coastal region using remote sensing and GIS

2010 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yin, Jie ^a   Xu, Shiyuan ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Zhong, Haidong ^a   Hu, Yingjie ^a   Yin, Zhane ^b   Wang, Kangfasheng ^b   Zhang, Xinjian ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Coastal flooding; Remote sensing; Sea level rise; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED SEA-LEVEL RISE; CHINA; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL FLOODING; COASTAL REGIONS; DECISION MAKERS; DEVELOPED ECONOMIES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIKE SYSTEM; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRID-BASED; MITIGATION MEASURES; REMOTE SENSING AND GIS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM EVENTS; STORM SURGES; VULNERABILITY; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR;

COASTAL ZONES;

EID: 77958047993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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