An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

M Durand, CJ Gleason, PA Garambois… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission planned for
launch in 2020 will map river elevations and inundated area globally for rivers> 100 m wide …

A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission

M Durand, CJ Gleason, TM Pavelsky… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will vastly expand
measurements of global rivers, providing critical new data sets for both gaged and ungaged …

Hydraulic visibility: Using satellite altimetry to parameterize a hydraulic model of an ungauged reach of a braided river

PA Garambois, S Calmant, H Roux… - Hydrological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
What hydraulic information can be gained from remotely sensed observations of a river's
surface? In this study, we analyze the relationship between river bed undulations and water …

Satellite altimetry in coastal regions

P Cipollini, J Benveniste, F Birol… - Satellite altimetry over …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter describes both the improvements in coastal altimetry on the technical side and
the ensuing applications, that is, first improvements in retracking and improvements in …

Variational estimation of effective channel and ungauged anabranching river discharge from multi-satellite water heights of different spatial sparsity

PA Garambois, K Larnier, J Monnier, P Finaud-Guyot… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-satellite sensing of continental water surfaces (WS) represents an unprecedented and
increasing potential for studying ungauged hydrological and hydraulic processes from their …

Automated river reach definition strategies: Applications for the surface water and ocean topography mission

RPM Frasson, R Wei, M Durand… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will measure
water surface heights and widths for rivers wider than 100 m. At its native resolution, SWOT …

Calibrating a hydrological model in ungauged small river basins of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau based on near-infrared images

Z Yu, J Wu, H Yao, X Chen, Y Cai - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
River discharge monitoring sites are scarce in high mountain basins, especially on the
Tibetan Plateau where rivers are widely distributed. The potential for estimating river …

The impact of reach averaging Manning's equation for an in-situ dataset of water surface elevation, width, and slope

S Tuozzolo, T Langhorst, RP de Moraes Frasson… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) will generate global,
spatially continuous maps of water surface elevation and extent for large inland water …

Exploring the factors controlling the error characteristics of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission discharge estimates

RPM Frasson, MT Durand, K Larnier… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission will measure
river width, water surface elevation, and slope for rivers wider than 50–100 m. SWOT …

River discharge and bathymetry estimation from SWOT altimetry measurements

K Larnier, J Monnier, PA Garambois… - Inverse problems in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
An inverse method to estimate the discharge of rivers observed by satellite altimetry is
developed and assessed. The flow model relies on the Saint-Venant equations combined …