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Near Real-Time Flood Monitoring and Impact Assessment SystemsFloods are the costliest natural disaster (United Nations 2004), causing approximately6.8 million deaths in the twentieth century alone (Doocy et al. 2013).Worldwide economic flood damage estimates in 2012 exceed $19 Billion USD(Munich Re 2013). Extended duration floods also pose longer term threats to food security, water, sanitation, hygiene, and community livelihoods, particularly in developing countries (Davies et al. 2014).Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that precipitation extremes, rainfall intensity, storm intensity, and variability are increasing due to climate change (IPCC 2007). Increasing hydrologic uncertainty will likely lead to unprecedented extreme flood events. As such, there is a vital need to enhance and further develop traditional techniques used to rapidly assessflooding and extend analytical methods to estimate impacted population and infrastructure.
Document ID
20170007833
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Book Chapter
Authors
Ahamed, Aakash
(Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bolten, John
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Doyle, C.
(Texas Univ. Austin, TX, United States)
Fayne, Jessica
(South Carolina Univ. Columbia, SC, United States)
Date Acquired
August 18, 2017
Publication Date
November 4, 2016
Publication Information
Publication: Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 2198-0721
e-ISBN: 978-3-319-43743-9
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN45515
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG11HP16A
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
flood
Landsat
Asia

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