Improving Distributed Runoff Prediction in Urbanized Catchments with Remote Sensing based Estimates of Impervious Surface Cover

Autor: Frank Canters, Okke Batelaan, Tim De Roeck, Tim Van de Voorde, Jaroslaw Chormanski
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 8, Iss 2, Pp 910-932 (2008)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
Popis: The amount and intensity of runoff on catchment scale are strongly determinedby the presence of impervious land-cover types, which are the predominant cover types inurbanized areas. This paper examines the impact of different methods for estimatingimpervious surface cover on the prediction of peak discharges, as determined by a fullydistributed rainfall-runoff model (WetSpa), for the upper part of the Woluwe Rivercatchment in the southeastern part of Brussels. The study shows that detailed informationon the spatial distribution of impervious surfaces, as obtained from remotely sensed data,produces substantially different estimates of peak discharges than traditional approachesbased on expert judgment of average imperviousness for different types of urban land use.The study also demonstrates that sub-pixel estimation of imperviousness may be a usefulalternative for more expensive high-resolution mapping for rainfall-runoff modelling atcatchment scale.
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