Remote sensing of river corridors: A review of current trends and future directions

C Tomsett, J Leyland - River Research and Applications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
River corridors play a crucial environmental, economic, and societal role yet also represent
one of the world's most dangerous natural hazards, making monitoring imperative to …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of suspended sediments in the Negro River, Amazon Basin, from in situ and Sentinel-2 remote sensing data

RR Marinho, T Harmel, JM Martinez… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Monitoring suspended sediments through remote sensing data in black-water rivers is a
challenge. Herein, remote sensing reflectance (Rrs) from in situ measurements and Sentinel …

Rainfall control on Amazon sediment flux: synthesis from 20 years of monitoring

E Armijos, A Crave, JC Espinoza… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The biodiversity and productivity of the Amazon floodplain depend on nutrients and organic
matter transported with suspended sediments. Nevertheless, there are still fundamental …

Estimating Suspended Sediment Concentration using Remote Sensing for the Teles Pires River, Brazil

RSD Paulista, FT de Almeida, AP de Souza… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Improving environmental sustainability involves measuring indices that show responses to
different production processes and management types. Suspended sediment concentration …

An index concentration method for suspended load monitoring in large rivers of the Amazonian foreland

W Santini, B Camenen, J Le Coz… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - esurf.copernicus.org
Because increasing climatic variability and anthropic pressures have affected the sediment
dynamics of large tropical rivers, long-term sediment concentration series have become …

Reversal of the sediment load increase in the Amazon basin influenced by divergent trends of sediment transport from the Solimões and Madeira Rivers

T Li, S Wang, Y Liu, B Fu, D Gao - Catena, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Amazon River is the largest river in the world in terms of freshwater discharge
and sediment load. Understanding the fluvial sediment transport processes operating in the …

Nanoparticles containing hazardous elements and the spatial optics of the Sentinel-3B OLCI satellite in Amazonian rivers: a potential tool to understand environmental …

LFO Silva, BW Bodah, LP Lozano, MLS Oliveira… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Amazon River is the longest river in the world. The Tapajós River is a tributary
to the Amazon. At their junction, a marked decrease in water quality is evident from negative …

Indirect assessment of sedimentation in hydropower dams using MODIS remote sensing images

RC Condé, JM Martinez, MA Pessotto, R Villar… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this study, we used moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite
images to quantify the sedimentation processes in a cascade of six hydropower dams along …

Assessing Orinoco river sediment discharge trend using MODIS satellite images

M Gallay, JM Martinez, A Mora, B Castellano… - Journal of South …, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to derive the Surface Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSSC)
and river sediment discharge (for the period 2000-2016) along the Orinoco River reaches …

Impact of river discharge and suspended sediments on the nearshore benthic environment along the Indian southwest coast

S Santhikrishnan, R Jyothibabu, R Sajeev… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
River discharge into the sea and its implications on the environmental setting and fauna in
the nearshore represent the intricate interactions among the atmosphere, hydrosphere …