Hydrological applications of Landsat imagery used in the study of the 1973 Indus River flood, Pakistan
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Abstract
During August and September 1973, the Indus River Valley of Pakistan experienced one of the largest floods on record, resulting in damages to homes, businesses, public works, and crops amounting to millions of rupees. Tremendous areas of lowlands were inundated along the Indus River and major tributaries. Landsat data made it possible to easily measure the extent of flooding, totaling about 20,000 km2 within an area of about 400,000 km2 south from the Punjab to the Arabian Sea.
The Indus River data were used to continue experimentation in the development of rapid, accurate, and inexpensive optical techniques of flood mapping by satellite begun in 1973 for the Mississipi River floods. The research work on the Indus River not resulted in the development of more effective procedures for optical processing of flood data and synoptically depicting flooding, but also provided potentially valuable ancillary information concerning the hydrology of much of the Indus River Basin.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Hydrological applications of Landsat imagery used in the study of the 1973 Indus River flood, Pakistan |
| Series title | Journal of the American Water Resources Association |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1978.tb02165.x |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 1978 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Water Resources Association |
| Publisher location | Herndon, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 14 p. |
| First page | 261 |
| Last page | 274 |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Other Geospatial | Indus River Basin |
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