Perspectives on open access high resolution digital elevation models to produce global flood hazard layers

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sampson, Christopher C ^a   Smith, Andrew M ^a   Bates, Paul D ^a   Neal, Jeffrey C ^a   Trigg, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DEM; Global flood modeling; Hazard modeling; Hydraulic modeling; Remote sensing of environment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HAZARDS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK PERCEPTION;

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; CURRENT GENERATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOOD MODELING; HAZARD MODELING; HIGH RESOLUTION; TERRAIN MODELING; URBAN STRUCTURE;

SURVEYING;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 85020887811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2015.00085     Document Type: Article

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