Technical Note: Advances in flash flood monitoring using unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs)

Perks, Matthew T.; Russell, Andrew J.; Large, Andrew R. G.

doi:10.5194/hess-20-4005-2016

Articles | Volume 20, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4005-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4005-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 10

Technical note

|

05 Oct 2016

Technical note |

| 05 Oct 2016

Technical Note: Advances in flash flood monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Matthew T. Perks, Andrew J. Russell, and Andrew R. G. Large

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Short summary

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to capture information about the earth’s surface in dangerous and previously inaccessible locations. Here we present a method whereby image acquisition and subsequent analysis have enabled the highly dynamic and oft-immeasurable hydraulic phenomenon present during high-energy flash floods to be quantified at previously unattainable spatial and temporal resolutions.