Crossing the “Valley of Death”: Lessons Learned from Implementing an Operational Satellite-Based Flood Forecasting System

Faisal Hossain (1) , A. Siddique-E-Akbor , Wondmagegn Yigzaw , Sardar Shah-Newaz , Monowar Hossain , Liton Chandra Mazumder , Tanvir Ahmed , C. K Shum (2) , Hyongki Lee , Sylvain Biancamaria (3) , Francis Turk , Ashutosh Limaye

1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tennessee Technological University
2 School of Earth Sciences
3 LEGOS - Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales

Making a research-grade satellite-based flood forecasting system operational in developing nations without long-term incubation involves challenging roadblocks.

Domaines: Hydrologie; Interfaces continentales, environnement

Faisal Hossain, A. Siddique-E-Akbor, Wondmagegn Yigzaw, Sardar Shah-Newaz, Monowar Hossain, et al.. Crossing the “Valley of Death”: Lessons Learned from Implementing an Operational Satellite-Based Flood Forecasting System. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2014, 95 (8), pp.1201-1207. ⟨10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00176.1⟩. ⟨hal-02137392⟩