The floodplain inundation history of the Murray-Darling Basin through two-monthly maximum water depth maps.

ABSTRACT: With growing concerns over water management in rivers worldwide, researchers are seeking innovative solutions to monitor and understand changing flood patterns. In a noteworthy advancement, stakeholders interested in the changing flood patterns of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia, covering an area of 1 million km², can now access a consistent timeseries of water depth maps for the entire basin. The dataset covers the period from 1988 to 2022 at two-monthly timestep and was developed using remotely sensed imagery and a flood depth estimation model at a spatial resolution of ≈30 m, providing a comprehensive picture of maximum observed inundation depth across the MDB. Validation against 13 hydrodynamic model outputs for different parts of the MDB yielded a mean absolute

SUBMITTER: Penton DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10517945 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature