Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Application of remote sensing in flood management with special reference to monsoon Asia: a review

J Sanyal, XX Lu - Natural Hazards, 2004 - Springer
The conventional means to record hydrological parameters of aflood often fail to record an
extreme event. Remote sensingtechnology along with geographic information system (GIS) …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping wetland characteristics using temporally dense Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data: A case study in the St. Lucia wetlands, South Africa

B Slagter, NE Tsendbazar, A Vollrath… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wetlands have been determined as one of the most valuable ecosystems on Earth and are
currently being lost at alarming rates. Large-scale monitoring of wetlands is of high …

Random forest wetland classification using ALOS-2 L-band, RADARSAT-2 C-band, and TerraSAR-X imagery

M Mahdianpari, B Salehi, F Mohammadimanesh… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wetlands are important ecosystems around the world, although they are degraded due both
to anthropogenic and natural process. Newfoundland is among the richest Canadian …

Wetland monitoring using SAR data: A meta-analysis and comprehensive review

S Adeli, B Salehi, M Mahdianpari, LJ Quackenbush… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Despite providing vital ecosystem services, wetlands are increasingly threatened across the
globe by both anthropogenic activities and natural processes. Synthetic aperture radar …

Uncertainty in the calibration of effective roughness parameters in HEC-RAS using inundation and downstream level observations

F Pappenberger, K Beven, M Horritt, S Blazkova - Journal of hydrology, 2005 - Elsevier
An uncertainty analysis of the unsteady flow component (UNET) of the one-dimensional
model HEC-RAS within the generalised likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) is …

[图书][B] Hazards, risk, and vulnerability

A Dewan, AM Dewan - 2013 - Springer
Natural hazard terminologies with existing models of vulnerability, hazard, and risk are
presented in this chapter. A conceptual framework has been developed based on hazard …

Wetlands of the lowland Amazon basin: Extent, vegetative cover, and dual-season inundated area as mapped with JERS-1 synthetic aperture radar

LL Hess, JM Melack, AG Affonso, C Barbosa… - Wetlands, 2015 - Springer
Wetland extent, vegetation cover, and inundation state were mapped for the first time at
moderately high (100 m) resolution for the entire lowland Amazon basin, using mosaics of …

Remote sensing of the distribution and extent of wetlands in the Amazon basin

JM Melack, LL Hess - Amazonian floodplain forests: ecophysiology …, 2011 - Springer
Basin-wide mosaics of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, validated with airborne
videography, were used to map the extent and distribution of Amazonian wetlands. Cover …

Delineation of inundated area and vegetation along the Amazon floodplain with the SIR-C synthetic aperture radar

LL Hess, JM Melack, S Filoso… - IEEE transactions on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Floodplain inundation and vegetation along the Negro and Amazon rivers near Manaus,
Brazil were accurately delineated using multi-frequency, polarimetric synthetic aperture …