A review of low-cost space-borne data for flood modelling: topography, flood extent and water level

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 3368-3387

  Yan, Kun ^a   Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^b   Solomatine, Dimitri P ^a,c   Schumann, Guy J P ^d  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Los Angeles   (United States)

Author keywords

hydraulic modelling; low cost space borne data; radar altimetry; SAR imagery; SRTM topography

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; COSTS; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRAULIC MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER LEVELS;

FLOOD INUNDATION MODELLING; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING;

FLOODS;

FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 84940765630     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10449     Document Type: Article

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