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 …

Measurements and observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): Innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

F Tauro, J Selker, N Van De Giesen… - Hydrological sciences …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 bathymetry estimate and discharge assessment from remote sensing

T Moramarco, S Barbetta, DM Bjerklie… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NASA Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission and ESA Sentinel‐1,
inter‐alia, propose to monitor inland waters from satellites. The radar altimeter and the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle (UAV) image velocimetry for validation of two-dimensional hydraulic model simulations

C Masafu, R Williams, X Shi, Q Yuan, M Trigg - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-intrusive image-based techniques for measuring surface river velocities have rapidly
evolved as a cost-effective and safe means for quantifying flow patterns. Large-scale particle …

Estimating the average river cross‐section velocity by observing only one surface velocity value and calibrating the entropic parameter

F Bahmanpouri, A Eltner, S Barbetta… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The current research aims to predict the velocity distribution and discharge rates in rivers
based on the entropy concept using only one surface velocity measurement. In this direction …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating velocity distribution and flood discharge at river bridges using entropy theory–insights from computational fluid dynamics flow fields

F Bahmanpouri, T Lazzarin, S Barbetta… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2024 - hess.copernicus.org
Estimating the flow velocity and discharge in rivers is of particular interest for monitoring,
modeling, and research purposes. Instruments for measuring water level and surface …

QCam: SUAS-based Doppler radar for measuring river discharge

JW Fulton, IE Anderson, CL Chiu, W Sommer… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The US Geological Survey is actively investigating remote sensing of surface velocity and
river discharge (discharge) from satellite-, high altitude-, small, unmanned aircraft systems …

Near-field remote sensing of surface velocity and river discharge using radars and the probability concept at 10 US Geological Survey streamgages

JW Fulton, CA Mason, JR Eggleston, MJ Nicotra… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Near-field remote sensing of surface velocity and river discharge (discharge) were
measured using coherent, continuous wave Doppler and pulsed radars. Traditional …