Calibration of two-dimensional floodplain modeling in the central Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System using SAR interferometry

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Jung, Hahn Chul ^a   Jasinski, Michael ^a   Kim, Jin Woo ^b   Shum, C K ^b   Bates, Paul ^c   Neal, Jeffrey ^c   Lee, Hyongki ^d   Alsdorf, Doug ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST-FIT MODELS; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN INUNDATION; HIGH FLOW; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH WATER; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; IN-CHANNELS; IN-SITU; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LOUISIANA; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; MODEL CALIBRATION; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATION; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPRING FLOODS; WATER ELEVATION;

CALIBRATION; FLOODS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HYDRODYNAMICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER LEVELS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER);

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER STORAGE;

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864063943     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011951     Document Type: Article

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