Water resources in Africa under global change: monitoring surface waters from space

F Papa, JF Crétaux, M Grippa, E Robert, M Trigg… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
The African continent hosts some of the largest freshwater systems worldwide, characterized
by a large distribution and variability of surface waters that play a key role in the water …

Phase unwrapping in InSAR: A review

H Yu, Y Lan, Z Yuan, J Xu, H Lee - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR) is primarily used in remote-sensing
applications and has created a new class of radar data that has significantly evolved during …

Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex

GC Dargie, SL Lewis, IT Lawson, ETA Mitchard… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Peatlands are carbon-rich ecosystems that cover just three per cent of Earth's land surface,
but store one-third of soil carbon. Peat soils are formed by the build-up of partially …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

L Zhou, Y Tian, RB Myneni, P Ciais, S Saatchi, YY Liu… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Tropical forests are global epicentres of biodiversity and important modulators of climate
change, and are mainly constrained by rainfall patterns,,. The severe short-term droughts …

Inroads of remote sensing into hydrologic science during the WRR era

DP Lettenmaier, D Alsdorf, J Dozier… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The first issue of WRR appeared eight years after the launch of Sputnik, but by WRR's 25th
anniversary, only seven papers that used remote sensing had appeared. Over the journal's …

Understanding global groundwater-climate interactions

CE Ndehedehe, OE Adeyeri, AO Onojeghuo… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global warming is emerging as an important predictor of water availability and future water
supplies across the world through inducing the frequency and severity in hydrological …

The challenges of remote monitoring of wetlands

AL Gallant - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Wetlands are highly productive and support a wide variety of ecosystem goods and services.
Various forms of global change impose compelling needs for timely and reliable information …

Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data

B Crezee, GC Dargie, CEN Ewango, ETA Mitchard… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The world's largest tropical peatland complex is found in the central Congo Basin. However,
there is a lack of in situ measurements to understand the peatland's distribution and the …

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 …