Articles | Volume 20, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4005-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4005-2016
Technical note
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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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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.