Development of a global inundation map at high spatial resolution from topographic downscaling of coarse-scale remote sensing data

• Published in: Remote sensing of environment Vol. 158; pp. 348 - 361
• Main Authors: Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne, Lehner, Bernhard, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, Papa, Fabrice, Hamilton, Stephen K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.03.2015
• Subjects: Accuracy; Coarsening; data collection; decision support systems; Decision tree; Downscaling; ecosystems; Errors; Estimates; floodplains; freshwater; Global; Inundation; land cover; probability; Remote sensing; satellites; simulation models; spatial data; Spatial resolution; Surface water; topography; Wetlands; Downscaling; Decision tree; Inundation; Global; Surface water; Wetlands

Large-scale estimates of the area of terrestrial surface waters have greatly improved over time, in particular through the development of multi-satellite methodologies, but the generally coarse spatial resolution (tens of kms) of global observations is still inadequate for many ecological applicatio...