Exploring the potential of SRTM topographic data for flood inundation modelling under uncertainty

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 849-861

  Yan, Kun ^a   Baldassarre, Giuliano Di ^a   Solomatine, Dimitri P ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Floodplain monitoring; Inundation modelling; Light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) topography; Shuttle radar topography mission (SRTM) topography; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883567868     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2013.137     Document Type: Article

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