Near real-time flood wave approximation on large rivers from space: Application to the River Po, Italy

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Schumann, G ^a   Di Baldassarre, G ^b   Alsdorf, D ^c   Bates, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNESCO IHE ^*  (Netherlands)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASERS; CONTINUOUS SAMPLING; DISCHARGE VOLUME; EARTH'S SURFACE; FLAT TERRAINS; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD MANAGEMENT; FLOOD WAVES; LARGE RIVERS; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY; OPEN CHANNELS; RADAR IMAGE; RADAR IMAGERY; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE DATA; SURFACE PROFILES; TERRAIN HEIGHT; TOPOGRAPHIC COMPLEXITY; VERTICAL ACCURACY; WATER SLOPE; WATER SURFACE;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FORESTRY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; RADAR IMAGING; TRACKING RADAR; WATER LEVELS;

RIVERS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOOD; FLOOD FORECASTING; LAND SURFACE; MAGNITUDE; RESOLUTION; RIVER; RIVER DISCHARGE; TERRAIN; WATER LEVEL;

AMAZONIA; ITALY; PO RIVER;

EID: 78649509313     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007672     Document Type: Article

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