Estimation of river depth from remotely sensed hydraulic relationships

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3165-3179

  Mersel, Matthew K ^a,b   Smith, Laurence C ^a   Andreadis, Konstantinos M ^c   Durand, Michael T ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hydraulic geometry; river depth; slope break; surface water and ocean topography; SWOT

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; FLOODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING; STREAM FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; REMOTELY-SENSED OBSERVATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SLOPE BREAK; SWOT; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

RIVERS;

BATHYMETRY; CROSS SECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER WATER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SONAR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH;

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; GANGES RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84881074024     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20176     Document Type: Article

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