The strengths and limitations in using the daily MODIS open water likelihood algorithm for identifying flood events

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 11791-11809

  Ticehurst, Catherine ^a   Guerschman, Juan Pablo ^a   Chen, Yun ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inundation mapping; MODIS OWL; MODIS view angle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920069351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61211791     Document Type: Article

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