Upstream satellite remote sensing for river discharge forecasting: Application to major rivers in South Asia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 131, Issue , 2013, Pages 140-151

  Hirpa, Feyera A ^a   Hopson, Thomas M ^b   De Groeve, Tom ^c   Brakenridge, G Robert ^d   Gebremichael, Mekonnen ^a   Restrepo, Pedro J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood wave; Floods; Flow estimation; Forecasting; Wave speed

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE; BRAHMAPUTRA; CROSS-VALIDATION METHODS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOOD WAVES; FLOW ESTIMATION; FLOW INFORMATIONS; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECASTING: APPLICATIONS; GAUGING STATIONS; HARDINGE; HIGH FLOW; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LEADTIME; LOW FLOW; MISSING DATA; MODEL CALIBRATION; NASH-SUTCLIFFE COEFFICIENT; NOWCAST; NOWCASTING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; REGRESSION MODEL; RIVER CHANNELS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SOUTH ASIA; WAVE SPEED;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; FLOODS; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STREAM FLOW;

RIVERS;

CALIBRATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOOD WAVE; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; GANGES RIVER;

EID: 84872545787     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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