Near real time flood alerting for the global disaster alert and coordination system

Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 33-39

  De Groeve, Tom ^a   Kugler, Zsofia ^a   Brakenridge, G Robert ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster alerts; Flood alerts; Humanitarian aid; Microwave remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COORDINATION SYSTEMS; HUMANITARIAN AID; INFORMATION SOURCES; INITIAL ESTIMATE; INTERNATIONAL MEDIA; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; REMOTE OBSERVATION;

FLOODS;

EID: 84905656105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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