Real time estimation of the calgary floods using limited remote sensing data

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 381-398

  Schnebele, Emily ^a   Cervone, Guido ^b   Kumar, Shamanth ^c   Waters, Nigel ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Flood assessment; Volunteered geographical data

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; DISASTERS; ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING;

FLOOD ASSESSMENT; FLOOD ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DATA; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SENSING COVERAGE; UNCERTAINITIES; VEGETATION CANOPY;

FLOODS;

CLOUD COVER; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; NATURAL DISASTER; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

ALBERTA; CALGARY; CANADA;

EID: 84894846175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6020381     Document Type: Article

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