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Near real time satellite imagery to support and verify timely flood modelling

✍ Scribed by Giuliano Di Baldassarre; Guy Schumann; Paul Bates


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
215 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6087

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Abstract

The study investigates the capability of coarse resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to support flood inundation models. A hydraulic model of a 98‐km reach of the River Po (Northern Italy) was calibrated on the October 2000 high‐magnitude flood event with extensive and high‐quality field data. During the June 2008, low‐magnitude flood event a SAR image was acquired and processed in near real time (NRT) in order to provide adequate data for quick verification and recalibration of the hydraulic model. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.