Monitoring river and lake levels from space

Details Monitoring river and lake levels from space Monitoring river and lake levels from space

Feb 2004

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ESA Bulletin (ISSN 0376-4265), No. 117, p. 36 - 42 (2004)

Physics

Space Missions: Earth, Water

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The growing concern about our planet's water resources, coupled with the economically driven decrease in ground-based gauge measurements, has focused attention on the possibility of using space-based data sets for remote measurements of river and lake heights. The most direct measurements of inland water heights are obtained from satellite altimeters, with long time series of such observations having been built up over the past decade. ESA has been developing new global river and lake monitoring products, including an expert processing system, with the help of De Montfort University (UK). A seven-year-long time series of samples was distributed to the hydrology community at the CNES Hydrology from Space Workshop in Toulouse last October in order to validate the user requirements. They responded very favorably and are now impatient to get their hands on a decade of global river- and lake-level products, as well as the latest near-real-time products coming from ESA's Envisat mission.

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