Internationally coordinated multi-mission planning is now critical to sustain the space-based rainfall observations needed for managing floods globally

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Reed, Patrick M ^a   Chaney, Nathaniel W ^b   Herman, Jonathan D ^a   Ferringer, Matthew P ^c   Wood, Eric F ^b  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

climate adaptation; earth observation; floods; mission planning; remote sensing; risk management

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DESIGN; EARTH (PLANET); FLOOD CONTROL; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SATELLITES;

CLIMATE ADAPTATION; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; FLOOD MANAGEMENT; HIGH INTENSITY; MISSION PLANNING; OPERATIONAL DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; SATELLITE SYSTEM;

FLOODS;

DATA SET; FLOOD CONTROL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84923672961     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024010     Document Type: Article

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