Remote Sensing-Derived Water Extent and Level to Constrain Hydraulic Flood Forecasting Models: Opportunities and Challenges

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 977-1034

  Grimaldi, Stefania ^a   Li, Yuan ^a   Pauwels, Valentijn R N ^a   Walker, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Flood extent and level; Hydraulic modelling of floods; Real time forecast; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; DATA HANDLING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FORECASTING; HYDRAULIC MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; WATER LEVELS;

COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; FLOOD FORECASTING MODELS; HYDRAULIC MODEL CALIBRATION; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; REAL-TIME FORECASTS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 84982824833     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-016-9378-y     Document Type: Review

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