Global and Low-Cost Topographic Data to Support Flood Studies

Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 105-123

  Yan, Kun ^a   Neal, Jeffrey C ^b   Solomatine, Dimitri P ^a,c   Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^a,d  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ERS 2 SAR imagery; GLUE; Hydraulic modeling; LISFLOOD FP; SRTM topography; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLUES; HYDRAULIC MODELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACKING RADAR; WATER LEVELS;

FLOOD INUNDATION MODELING; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; HYDROMETRIC INFORMATION; LISFLOOD-FP; ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; SAR IMAGERY; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYDRAULIC MODEL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84941953651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394846-5.00004-7     Document Type: Chapter

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