Correction of Interferometric and Vegetation Biases in the SRTMGL1 Spaceborne DEM with Hydrological Conditioning towards Improved Hydrodynamics Modeling in the Amazon Basin

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 16108-16130

  Pinel, Sebastien ^a,b   Bonnet, Marie Paule ^b,c   Santos Da Silva, Joecila ^a,b   Moreira, Daniel ^d   Calmant, Stephane ^b,d,e   Satgé, Fredéric ^b   Seyler, Fredérique ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d Geological Survey of Brazil   (Brazil)

^e LEGOS   (France)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

altimetry; Amazon; bathymetry; DEM; floodplain; lake; remote sensing; SRTMGL1; vegetation

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DRAINAGE; FLOODS; FORESTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERPOLATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK MECHANICS;

ALTIMETRY; AMAZON; AMAZON BASIN; DEM; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FLOOD PLAINS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING; INTERFEROMETRICS; REMOTE-SENSING; SRTM GLOBAL 1 ARC-SECOND;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84968926642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215822     Document Type: Article

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