Remote sensing of river delta inundation: Exploiting the potential of coarse spatial resolution, temporally-dense MODIS time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8516-8542

  Kuenzer, Claudia ^a   Klein, Igor ^a   Ullmann, Tobias ^b   Georgiou, EfiFoufoula ^c   Baumhauer, Roland ^b   Dech, Stefan ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flooding; Ganges Brahmaputra delta; Inundation; Irrawaddy delta; Mackenzie delta; Mekong delta; MODIS; Remote sensing; River deltas; Yellow river delta

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MARINE BIOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OIL WELL FLOODING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES;

GANGES-BRAHMAPUTRA DELTA; INUNDATION; IRRAWADDY DELTA; MACKENZIE DELTA; MEKONG DELTA; MODIS; RIVER DELTAS; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937828992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70708516     Document Type: Article

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