Unmanned aerial vehicles in hydrology and water management: Applications, challenges, and perspectives

BS Acharya, M Bhandari, F Bandini… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrologic sciences and water resources management have long depended on a
combination of in situ measurements and remotely sensed data for research and regulatory …

Remote sensing of river discharge: A review and a framing for the discipline

CJ Gleason, MT Durand - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing of river discharge (RSQ) is a burgeoning field rife with innovation. This
innovation has resulted in a highly non-cohesive subfield of hydrology advancing at a rapid …

Bottom-up multilevel flood hazard mapping by integrated inundation modelling in data scarce cities

M Guan, K Guo, H Yan, N Wright - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
With increasing urban flood risk due to urbanisation and climate change, flood hazard
prediction is ever more crucial for flood risk management and emergency response …

Perspective on uncertainty quantification and reduction in compound flood modeling and forecasting

P Abbaszadeh, DF Munoz, H Moftakhari… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
This perspective discusses the importance of characterizing, quantifying, and accounting for
various sources of uncertainties involved in different layers of hydrometeorological and …

Radar technology for river flow monitoring: Assessment of the current status and future challenges

Y Huang, H Chen, B Liu, K Huang, Z Wu, K Yan - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
As an emerging non-contact method of flow monitoring, radar technology compensates for
the shortcomings of traditional methods in terms of the efficiency, timeliness, and difficulty in …

Daily continuous river discharge estimation for ungauged basins using a hydrologic model calibrated by satellite altimetry: Implications for the SWOT mission

Q Huang, D Long, M Du, Z Han… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of state‐of‐the‐art satellite altimetry has provided new prospects for
integrating water surface elevation (water level) measurements with a hydrologic model for …

Using noncontact measurement of water surface dynamics to estimate river discharge

G Dolcetti, B Hortobágyi, M Perks… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating river discharge requires simultaneous measurement of velocity and flow depth.
While surface velocities are relatively easy to measure using noncontact techniques, depth …

Unsupervised classification of riverbed types for bathymetry mapping in shallow rivers using UAV-based hyperspectral imagery

S Kwon, Y Gwon, D Kim, IW Seo, H You - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Passive remote sensing is a practical and widely used method for bathymetry mapping in
shallow rivers. However, the accuracy of this approach is limited because of different …

Prediction of river discharges at confluences based on Entropy theory and surface-velocity measurements

F Bahmanpouri, S Barbetta, C Gualtieri… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrodynamic features of the confluence zone of large rivers are complicated because of
their three-dimensional flow structure. The confluence between the Rio Negro and the Rio …

Noncontact measurement of river surface velocity and discharge estimation with a low-cost Doppler radar sensor

F Alimenti, S Bonafoni, E Gallo… - … on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
River discharge is an important variable to measure in order to predict droughts and flood
occurrences. Once the cross-sectional geometry of the river is known, discharge can be …