Tracking water level changes of the Amazon Basin with space-borne remote sensing and integration with large scale hydrodynamic modelling: A review

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 223-231

  Hall, Amanda C ^a   Schumann, Guy J P ^a   Bamber, Jonathan L ^a   Bates, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Amazon river; Hydrodynamic modelling; Remote sensing; Review; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS; ACTIVE SENSOR; ALTIMETRY; AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON RIVER; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOOD WAVES; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELLING; IN-SITU; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPACE-BORNE SENSOR; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; WATER LEVEL CHANGES;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FLUID DYNAMICS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SPACE OPTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WATER LEVELS;

RIVERS;

ALTIMETRY; FLOODPLAIN; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER LEVEL;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 79955126386     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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