In riverine ecosystems, flood disturbances govern the distribution and assembly of vegetation communities. In the paper we present a novel approach to numerically characterize disturbance patterns in a spatially and temporally explicit way using semi-automated water detections in Sentinel-2 and Landsat data. Multitemporal metrics referred to as Flood Indicators are derived and compared to habitat classes formed by vegetation communities.

The observed relationship between vegetation communities and the satellite-derived disturbance measures underlines the potential of the presented approach to characterize riverine disturbance regimes. Given the global availability of satellite data, the approach should be easily transferable to other study areas.

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Cite the atricle: Herrmann, M., Schmidt-Riese, E., Bäte, D. A., Kempfer, F., Fassnacht, F. E., & Egger, G. (2024). Satellite-observed flood indicators are related to riparian vegetation communities. Ecological Indicators, 166, 112313.

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