Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Predicting Water-Related Hazards -- 1.1. BACKGROUND -- 1.2. ADVANCES IN REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES -- 1.3. OBJECTIVES AND ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- REFERENCES -- Part I Remote Sensing of Precipitation and Storms -- Chapter 2 Progress in Satellite Precipitation Products over the Past Two Decades: Evaluation and Application in Flash Flood Warning -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. STUDY AREA AND DATASETS -- 2.3. METHODOLOGY -- 2.4. RESULIS -- 2.5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: ABBREVIATIONs -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Observations of Tornadoes and Their Parent Supercells Using Ground-Based, Mobile Doppler Radars -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION: THE MOTIVATION FOR GROUND-BASED, MOBILE DOPPLER RADARS -- 3.2. A HISTORY OF GROUND-BASED, MOBILE DOPPLER RADARS AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES -- 3.3. OBSERVATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE OF TORNADOES AND THEIR PARENT STORMS -- 3.4. OBSERVATIONS OF TORNADOGENESIS AND TORNADO EVOLUTION -- 3.5. FUTURE RADAR DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER RADAR-RELATED ACTIVITIES -- 3.6. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part II Remote Sensing of Floods and Associated Hazards -- Chapter 4 Remote Sensing Mapping and Modeling for Flood Hazards in Data-Scarce Areas: A Case Study in Nyaungdon Area, Myanmar -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. METHODOLOGY -- 4.3. STUDY AREA AND DATA -- 4.4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4.5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Multisensor Remote Sensing and the Multidimensional Modeling of Extreme Flood Events: A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey-Triggered Floods in Houston, Texas, USA -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. THE DETECTABILITY OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY OVER THE EXTREME EVENT. , 5.3. INTEGRATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND CREST FOR HURRICANE HARVEY FLOOD SIMULATION -- 5.4. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE OUTLOOK -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 A Multisource, Data-Driven, Web-GIS-Based Hydrological Modeling Framework for Flood Forecasting and Prevention -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 6.3. EVALUATIONS AND RESULTS -- 6.4. DISCUSSION -- 6.5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 An Ensemble-Based, Remote-Sensing-Driven, Flood-Landslide Early Warning System -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. METHODOLOGY -- 7.3. STUDY AREA -- 7.4. RESULTS -- 7.5. CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Detection of Hazard-Damaged Bridges Using Multitemporal High-Resolution SAR Imagery -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. BACKSCATTERING MODEL OF BRIDGES OVER WATER -- 8.3. THE STUDY AREA AND IMAGE DATA -- 8.4. METHODOLOGY FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF BRIDGES -- 8.5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- 8.6. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part III Remote Sensing of Droughts and Associated Hazards -- Chapter 9 Drought Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing -- 9.1. INTRODUCTION -- 9.2. PROGRESS IN RS-BASED DROUGHT MONITORING -- 9.3. CASE STUDY -- 9.4. CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Remote Sensing of Vegetation Responses to Drought Disturbances Using Spaceborne Optical and Near-Infrared Sensors -- 10.1. INTRODUCTION -- 10.2. DROUGHTS AND THEIR ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEMS -- 10.3. REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION RESPONSES TO DROUGHTS -- 10.4. CASE STUDY IN YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA -- 10.5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 Recent Advances in Physical Water Scarcity Assessment Using GRACE Satellite Data -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION -- 11.2. MATERIAL AND METHODS -- 11.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 11.4. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 12 Study of Water Cycle Variation in the Yellow River Basin Based on Satellite Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling -- 12.1. INTRODUCTION -- 12.2. STUDY AREA -- 12.3. METHODS -- 12.4. RESULTS -- 12.5. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTs -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 Assessing the Impact of Climate Change-Induced Droughts on Soil Salinity Development in Agricultural Areas Using Ground and Satellite Sensors -- 13.1. INTRODUCTION -- 13.2. GROUND AND SATELLITE SENSOR APPROACHES FOR MEASSURING/MAPPING SOIL SALINITY -- 13.3. IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SOIL SALINITY DEVELOPMENT: WESTSIDE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CASE STUDY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Index -- EULA.