In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress
achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology …

Monitoring the variation of rivers and lakes is of great importance. Satellite radar altimetry is
a promising technology to do this on a regional to global scale. Satellite radar altimetry data …

Satellite altimetry has been widely used for inland water monitoring and modeling in the
present decade. In this paper, the availability, data quality, and quantity of a number of …

Abstract Study Region The Great Rift Valley lakes of Kenya have recently experienced
significant increases in their water levels, negatively impacting the local communities. This …

English The changes in lake level on the Tibetan Plateau are important indicators for the
study of climate and ecological environment changes. In-situ gauges can measure high …

In the past three decades, breakthroughs in satellites and remote sensing have highly
demonstrated their potential to characterize and model the various components of the …

Lakes play a key role in the global water cycle, providing essential water resources and
ecosystem services for humans and wildlife. Quantifying long-term changes in lake volume …

Coverage of in situ observations to monitor surface waters is insufficient on the global scale,
and decreasing across the globe. Satellite altimetry has become an increasingly important …

CryoSat-2 is a satellite of the European Space Agency that was launched in April 2010. It is
intended to monitor changes in the thickness of the marine ice, floating in the polar oceans …

Monitoring of the water level and river discharge is an important task, necessary both for
assessment of water supply in the current season and for forecasting water consumption …