Upstream satellite remote sensing for river discharge forecasting: Application to major rivers in South Asia

FA Hirpa, TM Hopson, T De Groeve… - Remote Sensing of …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work we demonstrate the utility of satellite remote sensing for river discharge
nowcasting and forecasting for two major rivers, the Ganges and Brahmaputra, in southern …

Soil moisture-runoff relation at the catchment scale as observed with coarse resolution microwave remote sensing

K Scipal, C Scheffler, W Wagner - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2005 - hess.copernicus.org
Microwave remote sensing offers emerging capabilities to monitor global hydrological
processes. Instruments like the two dedicated soil moisture missions SMOS and HYDROS or …

Remote sensing of water levels on floodplains: a spatial approach guided by hydraulic functioning

D Raclot - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
As in‐field data acquired during a flood are often limited to point information and are
spatially sparse, available 2‐or 3‐dimensional mathematical hydraulic models dramatically …

Retrieval of river discharge solely from satellite imagery and at‐many‐stations hydraulic geometry: Sensitivity to river form and optimization parameters

CJ Gleason, LC Smith, J Lee - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of river discharge is critically important for water resource management,
climate modeling, and improved understanding of the global water cycle, yet discharge is …

An operational approach to real-time dynamic measurement of discharge

V Alessandrini, G Bernardi, E Todini - Hydrology Research, 2013 - iwaponline.com
Based on the maximization of entropy, microwave sensors are becoming standard
approaches for converting point surface velocity measurements into discharge …

On the use of satellite passive microwave data for estimating surface soil wetness in the Mackenzie River Basin

R Leconte, M Temimi, N Chaouch, F Brissette… - … Region Atmospheric and …, 2008 - Springer
A method is presented to obtain dynamic estimates of basin wetness (BWI) and fractional
water surface (FWS) indices at the scale of the Mackenzie River Basin using SSM/I remotely …

Mapping recharge from space: roadmap to meeting the grand challenge

D Entekhabi, M Moghaddam - Hydrogeology Journal, 2007 - Springer
Fields of diffuse recharge flux play pivotal roles in:(1) linking surface and subsurface
hydrologic systems,(2) controlling the biogeochemistry of terrestrial systems, and (3) …

River gauging at global scale using optical and passive microwave remote sensing

AIJM Van Dijk, GR Brakenridge… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent discharge observations are lacking for most rivers globally. Discharge can be
estimated from remotely sensed floodplain and channel inundation area, but there is …

Building a flood-warning framework for ungauged locations using low resolution, open-access remotely sensed surface soil moisture, precipitation, soil, and …

S Kim, K Paik, FM Johnson… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soil moisture (SM) plays an important role in determining the antecedent condition of a
watershed, while topographic attributes define how and where SM and rainfall interact to …

Towards high resolution flood monitoring: An integrated methodology using passive microwave brightness temperatures and Sentinel synthetic aperture radar …

Z Zeng, Y Gan, AJ Kettner, Q Yang, C Zeng… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Monitoring changes in flood extent is critical for flood control and mitigation purposes in
areas where flooding affects many people and dense infrastructure and properties. Remote …