Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: Opportunities and challenges

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 1473-1489

  Assumpção, Thaine H ^a   Popescu, Ioana ^a   Jonoski, Andreja ^a   Solomatine, Dimitri P ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FLOODS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER RESOURCES;

ANALYSIS METHOD; AUTOMATED SENSORS; INTEGRATED DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; POSITIVE EXPERIENCES; RELATED VARIABLES; SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL MEDIA MININGS; TEMPORAL COVERAGE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LITERATURE REVIEW; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL MEDIA; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 85042716122     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-22-1473-2018     Document Type: Article

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