Paper Info
Title
Applying Remote Sensing To Support Flood Risk Assessment And Relief Agencies: A Global To Local Approach
Abstract
Flooding is the most common natural hazard worldwide, affecting over a billion people and costing $100 billion every year. This will likely increase in the future due to increasing population and assets in the flood-prone zones and climate change. Earth observation data have been utilized to map flooding on a global scale. This was mostly done by utilizing optical bands, as for these satellites the return period is relatively short; often daily. However, the usage of optical data can be restrictive due to e.g. cloud cover and nighttime. With synthetic aperture radar data most of these limitations can be overcome. As such, many entities now provide remotely sensed flood products, such that it becomes difficult for users to determine the best available flood data source. Here we describe the long-time development and implementation of a semi operational 'one-stop-shop' portal that contains globally scoped, flood prediction, monitoring capabilities and risk evaluations by leveraging on efforts of the entire flood community.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323351
IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Flood data, monitor flooding, flood portal, flood risk assessment
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Albert J. Kettner100.34
Guy J.-P. Schumann200.34
G. Robert Brakenridge300.34