Imaging Floods and Glacier Geohazards with Remote Sensing

• Other Authors: Cigna, Francesca (Editor), Xie, Hongjie (Editor), Chokmani, Karem (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; glacier surge; glacier collapse; rock-slope instability; hazard; Landsat; Sentinel 2; Tibet; flood extent mapping; supervised classification; NDWI; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); web application; synthetic aperture radar; offset tracking; displacements; Sentinel-1; glacier monitoring; flood mapping; damage assessment; SAR image; Landsat-8; Google Earth Engine; GEE; Bangladesh; SAR intensity time series; urban flood mapping; double bounce effect; Hurricane Matthew; flood; FPI; GRACE; terrestrial water storage anomaly; storage deficit; mass balance; snow depth; glacier retreat; surface DEM; elevation change; Sentinel; Secchi disk; chlorophyll a; sediments; phytoplankton; floods; remote sensing; GIS; disaster mapping; Lower Chenab Plain; laserscanning; UAV-structure from Motion; multi-spectral satellite data; synthetic Aperture Radar; glacier lake evolution; glacier river; slope processes; rock fall; cryosphere; fusion; inundation probability; Hurricane Harvey; ADCIRC; n/a
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Remote sensing plays a pivotal role in understanding where and how floods and glacier geohazards occur; their severity, causes and types; and the risk that they may pose to populations, activities and properties. By providing a spectrum of imaging capabilities, resolutions and temporal and spatial c...