Recent advances and new frontiers in riverine and coastal flood modeling

K Jafarzadegan, H Moradkhani… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate
flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all …

Remote sensing-derived water extent and level to constrain hydraulic flood forecasting models: Opportunities and challenges

S Grimaldi, Y Li, VRN Pauwels, JP Walker - Surveys in Geophysics, 2016 - Springer
Accurate, precise and timely forecasts of flood wave arrival time, depth and velocity at each
point of the floodplain are essential to reduce damage and save lives. Current computational …

An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

M Durand, CJ Gleason, PA Garambois… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission planned for
launch in 2020 will map river elevations and inundated area globally for rivers> 100 m wide …

Flood modeling and prediction using earth observation data

G Schumann, L Giustarini, A Tarpanelli, B Jarihani… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
The ability to map floods from satellites has been known for over 40 years. Early images of
floods were rather difficult to obtain, and flood map** from satellites was thus rather …

Inference of effective river properties from remotely sensed observations of water surface

PA Garambois, J Monnier - Advances in Water Resources, 2015 - Elsevier
The future SWOT mission (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) will provide cartographic
measurements of inland water surfaces (elevation, widths and slope) at an unprecedented …

[HTML][HTML] Scheduling satellite-based SAR acquisition for sequential assimilation of water level observations into flood modelling

J García-Pintado, JC Neal, DC Mason, SL Dance… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has proved useful for obtaining information
on flood extent, which, when intersected with a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the …

Estimating river discharge with swath altimetry: A proof of concept using AirSWOT observations

S Tuozzolo, G Lind, B Overstreet… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The forthcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission
will provide global measurements of the free surface of large rivers, providing new …

Towards operational SAR-based flood map** using neuro-fuzzy texture-based approaches

A Dasgupta, S Grimaldi, R Ramsankaran… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data are currently the most reliable resource for
flood monitoring, though still subject to various uncertainties, which can be objectively …

Coupling the k-nearest neighbor procedure with the Kalman filter for real-time updating of the hydraulic model in flood forecasting

K Liu, Z Li, C Yao, J Chen, K Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Kalman filter (KF) updating method has been widely used as an efficient measure to
assimilate real-time hydrological variables for reducing forecast uncertainty and providing …

River discharge estimation from synthetic SWOT-type observations using variational data assimilation and the full Saint-Venant hydraulic model

H Oubanas, I Gejadze, PO Malaterre, F Mercier - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission, to be
launched in 2021, will measure river water surface elevation, slope and width, with an …