The Use of Radar Imagery in Riverine Flood Inundation Studies

Fluvial Remote Sensing for Science and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-140

  Schumann, Guy J P ^a   Bates, Paul D ^a   Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^b   Mason, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydraulic models; Interferometry; Microwaves; Rapid mapping; Seed pixel; Shuttle imaging radar; Surface roughness; Synthetic Aperture Radar; TerraSAR X radar

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

RADAR IMAGERY; RAPID MAPPING; RIVERINE FLOODS; SEED PIXEL; TERRASAR-X;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84886161272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119940791.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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