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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 remote sensing techniques for flood monitoring and mapping, including use of optical data from geostationary sensors and LEO spacecraft, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data analysis, and data fusion. Detailed case studies from a variety of subject experts illustrate these tools and techniques. Accurate monitoring of flood events is increasingly necessary to gain insight about both causes and remedies. Floods are one of the most destructive hazards to the human populations, they can occur practically everywhere on the Earth surface, and each year cause considerable harm and damage to infrastructures. The recent Flood directive in European Countries is contributing to a more quantitative approach to flood hazard and risk evaluation. .

Geography. --- Hydrology. --- Environmental management. --- Remote sensing. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Flood control. --- Flood prevention --- Flood protection --- Floods --- Prevention of floods --- Rivers --- Forest influences --- Prevention --- Regulation --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Measurement --- Monitoring

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Climate change and land use transformations have induced an increased flood risk worldwide. These phenomena are dramatically impacting ordinary life and the economy. Research and technology offer a new strategy to quantify and predict such phenomena and also mitigate the impact of flooding. In particular, the growing computational power is offering new strategies for a more detailed description of the flooding over large scales. This book offers an overview of the most recent outcomes of the research on this argument.

History of engineering & technology --- climate change --- flood hazards --- high-resolution AGCM --- inundation analysis --- Lower Mekong river basin --- data assimilation --- ensemble Kalman filter --- flood inundation maps --- National Water Model (NWM) --- countermeasures --- flood impacts --- Metro Colombo canal system --- Colombo city, Sri Lanka --- urban floods --- near real-time --- Mekong Basin --- hydro-economic --- socioeconomic --- damage assessment --- hydroinformatics --- EU Floods Directive --- flood risk management --- extreme rainfall --- SCS-CN --- 2D hydraulic modelling --- HEC-RAS --- building representation --- ungauged streams --- uncertainty --- IDF curves --- Bayesian analysis --- Non-Stationary process --- open-access remotely sensed data --- flood mapping and modelling --- altimetry --- synthetic aperture radar --- optical satellite --- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) --- and transboundary floods --- flood --- remote sensing --- data integration --- RST-FLOOD --- MODIS --- VIIRS --- optical data --- flood mapping --- flood monitoring --- floodplains --- rivers dynamics --- DEM-based methods --- geomorphology --- data scarce environments --- DTM --- terrain analysis --- hydraulic geometry --- large scale --- 2D hydraulic modeling --- scaling in hydrology

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Climate change and land use transformations have induced an increased flood risk worldwide. These phenomena are dramatically impacting ordinary life and the economy. Research and technology offer a new strategy to quantify and predict such phenomena and also mitigate the impact of flooding. In particular, the growing computational power is offering new strategies for a more detailed description of the flooding over large scales. This book offers an overview of the most recent outcomes of the research on this argument.

climate change --- flood hazards --- high-resolution AGCM --- inundation analysis --- Lower Mekong river basin --- data assimilation --- ensemble Kalman filter --- flood inundation maps --- National Water Model (NWM) --- countermeasures --- flood impacts --- Metro Colombo canal system --- Colombo city, Sri Lanka --- urban floods --- near real-time --- Mekong Basin --- hydro-economic --- socioeconomic --- damage assessment --- hydroinformatics --- EU Floods Directive --- flood risk management --- extreme rainfall --- SCS-CN --- 2D hydraulic modelling --- HEC-RAS --- building representation --- ungauged streams --- uncertainty --- IDF curves --- Bayesian analysis --- Non-Stationary process --- open-access remotely sensed data --- flood mapping and modelling --- altimetry --- synthetic aperture radar --- optical satellite --- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) --- and transboundary floods --- flood --- remote sensing --- data integration --- RST-FLOOD --- MODIS --- VIIRS --- optical data --- flood mapping --- flood monitoring --- floodplains --- rivers dynamics --- DEM-based methods --- geomorphology --- data scarce environments --- DTM --- terrain analysis --- hydraulic geometry --- large scale --- 2D hydraulic modeling --- scaling in hydrology

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Climate change and land use transformations have induced an increased flood risk worldwide. These phenomena are dramatically impacting ordinary life and the economy. Research and technology offer a new strategy to quantify and predict such phenomena and also mitigate the impact of flooding. In particular, the growing computational power is offering new strategies for a more detailed description of the flooding over large scales. This book offers an overview of the most recent outcomes of the research on this argument.

History of engineering & technology --- climate change --- flood hazards --- high-resolution AGCM --- inundation analysis --- Lower Mekong river basin --- data assimilation --- ensemble Kalman filter --- flood inundation maps --- National Water Model (NWM) --- countermeasures --- flood impacts --- Metro Colombo canal system --- Colombo city, Sri Lanka --- urban floods --- near real-time --- Mekong Basin --- hydro-economic --- socioeconomic --- damage assessment --- hydroinformatics --- EU Floods Directive --- flood risk management --- extreme rainfall --- SCS-CN --- 2D hydraulic modelling --- HEC-RAS --- building representation --- ungauged streams --- uncertainty --- IDF curves --- Bayesian analysis --- Non-Stationary process --- open-access remotely sensed data --- flood mapping and modelling --- altimetry --- synthetic aperture radar --- optical satellite --- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) --- and transboundary floods --- flood --- remote sensing --- data integration --- RST-FLOOD --- MODIS --- VIIRS --- optical data --- flood mapping --- flood monitoring --- floodplains --- rivers dynamics --- DEM-based methods --- geomorphology --- data scarce environments --- DTM --- terrain analysis --- hydraulic geometry --- large scale --- 2D hydraulic modeling --- scaling in hydrology --- climate change --- flood hazards --- high-resolution AGCM --- inundation analysis --- Lower Mekong river basin --- data assimilation --- ensemble Kalman filter --- flood inundation maps --- National Water Model (NWM) --- countermeasures --- flood impacts --- Metro Colombo canal system --- Colombo city, Sri Lanka --- urban floods --- near real-time --- Mekong Basin --- hydro-economic --- socioeconomic --- damage assessment --- hydroinformatics --- EU Floods Directive --- flood risk management --- extreme rainfall --- SCS-CN --- 2D hydraulic modelling --- HEC-RAS --- building representation --- ungauged streams --- uncertainty --- IDF curves --- Bayesian analysis --- Non-Stationary process --- open-access remotely sensed data --- flood mapping and modelling --- altimetry --- synthetic aperture radar --- optical satellite --- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) --- and transboundary floods --- flood --- remote sensing --- data integration --- RST-FLOOD --- MODIS --- VIIRS --- optical data --- flood mapping --- flood monitoring --- floodplains --- rivers dynamics --- DEM-based methods --- geomorphology --- data scarce environments --- DTM --- terrain analysis --- hydraulic geometry --- large scale --- 2D hydraulic modeling --- scaling in hydrology