@InProceedings{Florenzano:1989:BrEx,
               author = "Florenzano, Teresa Gallotti",
                title = "Flood management using remote sensing data: the brazilian 
                         Experience",
            booktitle = "Space and flood management",
                 year = "1989",
                pages = "31--43",
         organization = "International Astronautical Federation, 40.",
             keywords = "ESTUDOS INTEGRADOS DO MEIO AMBIENTE.",
             abstract = "The lack of aerial photographic surveys, hidrological and 
                         meteorological records in developing countries makes satellite 
                         data extremely helpful for flood management. The river flooding is 
                         an important natural hazard which affects man and his spatial 
                         organization. The most apparent way in which Remote Sensing may 
                         assist is by providing imagery of floods as they happen. Any 
                         sensor capable of discriminating between water and land areas 
                         would seem to present good possibilities to fulfill this task. The 
                         synoptic coverage of space imagery allows rapid appraisal of the 
                         areal inundation extent for the entire river system. From space 
                         images, some important target parameters (impervious areas, water 
                         bodies, wetlands, land use and cover classes, etc.), significant 
                         to flood process studies and for inundation prediction models, can 
                         be obtained. Since 1981, the Remote Sensing Research Applications 
                         Department, INPE, Brazil, has studied flood events using MSS and 
                         TM Landsat data with success. Digital and Analog Landsat data of 
                         both normal and flood periods were used to identify and to map 
                         flooded areas. These studies were carried out in the Amazonas 
                         river valley section (North), Parana and Doce rivers valley 
                         section (Southeast)and other seven watershed sections of the 
                         Northeast of Brazil. The results obtained from these studies are 
                         the subject of this report.",
  conference-location = "Malaga",
      conference-year = "1989",
                label = "1388",
             language = "En",
        urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}