print email comment close Dartmouth Flood Observatory URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/ Description: "This site is a research tool for detection, mapping, measurement, and analysis of extreme flood events world-wide using satellite remote sensing. The Observatory provides yearly catalogs, maps, and images of river floods, from 1985 to the present." Features interactive maps, tables about large flood events, and aggregated data on flood severity, damage, duration, recurrence intervals, and more. The site also discusses hydrologic monitoring technologies and provides links to related information. Publisher: Dartmouth Flood Observatory Extra Keywords World Atlas of Flood Hazard Library of Congress Subject Headings: Floods Hydrology LII Database Information: Record 11188 created by Sybil Finemel on 04/18/2004 Last modification on 07/10/2006 Published: 04/18/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11188