Proof of concept of an altimeter-based river forecasting system for transboundary flow inside Bangladesh

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 587-601

  Hossain, Faisal ^a   Siddique E Akbor, A H ^b   Mazumder, Liton Chandra ^c   Shahnewaz, Sardar M ^c   Biancamaria, Sylvain ^d   Lee, Hyongki ^e   Shum, C K ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^c Institute of Water Modelling   (Bangladesh)

^d LEGOS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Brahmaputra; forecasting; Ganges; JASON 2; satellite radar altimeter; transboundary flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894475966     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2283402     Document Type: Article

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