TRMM satellite rainfall estimates for landslide early warning in Italy: Preliminary results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8523, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rossi, Mauro ^a,b   Kirschbaum, Dalia ^c   Luciani, Siliva ^a,b   Mondini, Alessandro C ^a,b   Guzzetti, Fausto ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; early warning; landslide; morphology; rain gauge; Rainfall; TRMM; validation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; EARLY WARNING; RAIN GAUGES; TRMM; VALIDATION;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; GAGES; LANDSLIDES; MORPHOLOGY; NASA; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

RAIN GAGES;

EID: 84880049668     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.979672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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