In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress
achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology …

During the last two decades, remote sensing data have led to tremendous progress in
advancing flood inundation modelling. In particular, low‐cost space‐borne data can be …

Develo** countries around the world are expanding hydropower to meet growing energy
demand. In the Brazilian Amazon,> 200 dams are planned over the next 30 years, and …

Rivers provide critical water supply for many human societies and ecosystems, yet global
knowledge of their flow rates is poor. We show that useful estimates of absolute river …

A methodology based on general hydraulic relations for rivers has been developed to
estimate the discharge (flow rate) of rivers using satellite remote sensing observations. The …

The ability to map floods from satellites has been known for over 40 years. Early images of
floods were rather difficult to obtain, and flood map** from satellites was thus rather …

In recent decades, water availability, water use, water sharing and freshwater supply for
basic human and economic needs have become central scientific and humanitarian issues …

A methodology to estimate the discharge along rivers, even poorly gauged ones, taking
advantage of water level measurements derived from satellite altimetry is proposed. The …

Hydrological data collection requires deployment of physical infrastructure like rain gauges,
water level gauges, as well as use of expensive equipment like echo sounders. Many …

Considering a large satellite dataset (ie~ 16 years of ERS-2 and ENVISAT observations) we
investigate the reliability of remotely-sensed data for calibrating a quasi-two dimensional …