Technical note: Advances in flash flood monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 4005-4015

  Perks, Matthew T ^a   Russell, Andrew J ^a   Large, Andrew R G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VELOCITY;

FREE SURFACE VELOCITY; GEOMETRIC RECTIFICATION; HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS; MEASUREMENT INTERVAL; OBJECT-BASED ANALYSIS; RECTIFICATION PROCESS; RESIDUAL DISTORTIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

FLOODS;

ALGORITHM; CHANNEL FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLASH FLOOD; HIGH ENERGY ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; TRACKING; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84991080334     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-4005-2016     Document Type: Article

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