Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes

Part I. Floods

1. Satellite-Based Estimation of Water Discharge and Runoff in the Magdalena River, Northern Andes of Colombia
Rogger Escobar C., Juan D. Restrepo, G. Robert Brakenridge, Albert J. Kettner

2. Remote Sensing of Drivers of Spring Snowmelt Flooding in the North Central U.S.
Samuel E. Tuttle, Eunsang Cho, Pedro J. Restrepo, Xinhua Jia, Carrie M. Vuyovich, Michael H. Cosh, Jennifer M. Jacobs

3. The NASA Global Flood Mapping System
F. Policelli, Dan Slayback, Bob Brakenridge, Joe Nigro, Alfred Hubbard, Ben Zaitchik, Mark Carroll, Hahn Jung

4. Congo Floodplain Hydraulics using PALSAR InSAR and Envisat Altimetry Data
Ting Yuan, Hyongki Lee, Hahn Chul Jung

5. Optical and Physical Methods for Mapping Flooding with Satellite Imagery
Jessica Fayne, John Bolten, Venkat Lakshmi, Aakash Ahamed

6. Near Real-Time Flood Monitoring and Impact Assessment Systems
Aakash Ahamed, John Bolten, Colin Doyle, Jessica Fayne

Part II. Droughts

7. Remote Sensing of Drought: Vegetation, Soil Moisture, and Data Assimilation
Ali Ahmadalipour, Hamid Moradkhani, Hongxiang Yan, Mahkameh Zarekarizi

8. Drought Monitoring and Assessment Using Remote Sensing
Z. Su, Y. He, X. Dong, L. Wang

9. A Framework for Assessing Soil Moisture Deficit and Crop Water Stress at Multiple Space and Time Scales Under Climate Change Scenarios Using Model Platform, Satellite Remote Sensing, and Decision Support System
Binayak P. Mohanty, Amor V. M. Ines, Yongchul Shin, Nandita Gaur, Narendra Das, Raghavendra Jana

10. Monitoring Drought in Brazil by Remote Sensing
Vitor Paiva Alcoforado Rebello, Augusto Getirana, Venkat Lakshmi, Otto Corrêa Rotunno Filho

11. Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing of Drought from Space
M. Sadegh, C. Love, A. Farahmand, A. Mehran, M. J. Tourian, A. AghaKouchak

12. Erratum to: Chapter 3: The NASA Global Flood Mapping System
F. Policelli, Dan Slayback, Bob Brakenridge, Joe Nigro, Alfred Hubbard, Ben Zaitchik, Mark Carroll, Hahn Jung

Keywords: Geography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Natural Hazards, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change Management and Policy