Flood Monitoring through Remote Sensing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Refice, Alberto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), D'Addabbo, Annarita (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Capolongo, Domenico (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry,
• Subjects: Remote sensing.; Environmental monitoring.; Hydrology.; Environmental management.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.

This book is an overview of current state of the art about monitoring of inundation events through remote sensing. A complete approach to efficient and precise flood monitoring requires multiple fields of expertise, from image processing to hydrologic monitoring. This volume details the latest remot...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1. Methods, techniques and sensors for precision flood monitoring through remote sensing.-Chapter2. Remote sensing as a tool for analysing channel dynamics and geomorphic effects of floods
• Chapter3. The use of DEM-based approaches to derive a priori information on flood-prone areas
• Chapter4. River Flood Forecasting System: An Intedisciplinary Approach
• Chapter5. Monitoring flood extent and area through multi-sensor, multi-temporal remote sensing: the Strymonas (Greece) river flood
• Chapter6. Adaptive SAR image processing techniques to support flood monitoring from Earth Observation data
• Chapter7. ­Flood Mapping in Vegetated and Urban Areas and other Challenges: Models and Methods
• Chapter8. Data fusion through Bayesian methods for flood monitoring from remotely sensed data.