Water resources are critical to the sustainability of life on Earth. With a growing population
and climate change, it is imperative to assess the security of these resources. Over the past …

Lakes are integrators of environmental change occurring at both the regional and global
scale. They present a wide range of behavior on a variety of timescales (cyclic and secular) …

To promote the advancement of novel observation techniques that may lead to new sources
of information to help better understand the hydrological cycle, the International Association …

River discharge is an important variable in the water cycle that is related to water supply,
irrigation, and flood forecasting. However, gauging stations are extremely limited across …

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 mapping from satellites was thus rather …

With the increasing climatic extremes, the frequency and severity of urban flood events have
intensified worldwide. In this study, image-based automated monitoring of flood formation …

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 …

Coastal zones are highly dynamical systems affected by a variety of natural and
anthropogenic forcing factors that include sea level rise, extreme events, local oceanic and …

For at least 20 years, nadir altimetry satellite missions have been successfully used to first
monitor the surface elevation of oceans and, shortly after, of large rivers and lakes. For the …