Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

[HTML][HTML] The assessment of water-borne erosion at catchment level using GIS-based RUSLE and remote sensing: A review

K Phinzi, NS Ngetar - International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil erosion is a direct product of the complex interactions between natural and
anthropogenic factors. Such factors vary over space and time, making the assessment of soil …

A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed

L Hawker, P Uhe, L Paulo, J Sosa… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Elevation data are fundamental to many applications, especially in geosciences. The latest
global elevation data contains forest and building artifacts that limit its usefulness for …

A high‐accuracy map of global terrain elevations

D Yamazaki, D Ikeshima, R Tawatari… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne digital elevation models (DEMs) are a fundamental input for many geoscience
studies, but they still include nonnegligible height errors. Here we introduce a high‐accuracy …

[HTML][HTML] Mekong delta much lower than previously assumed in sea-level rise impact assessments

PSJ Minderhoud, L Coumou, G Erkens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Deltas are low-relief landforms that are extremely vulnerable to sea-level rise. Impact
assessments of relative sea-level rise in deltas primarily depend on elevation data accuracy …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy assessment of digital elevation models (DEMs): A critical review of practices of the past three decades

JL Mesa-Mingorance, FJ Ariza-López - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
An analysis of almost 200 references has been carried out in order to obtain knowledge
about the DEM (Digital Elevation Model) accuracy assessment methods applied in the last …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on digital elevation model (DEM) simulation for flood modeling in the absence of a high-accuracy open access global DEM

L Hawker, P Bates, J Neal, J Rougier - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Open-access global Digital Elevation Models (DEM) have been crucial in enabling flood
studies in data-sparse areas. Poor resolution (> 30 m), significant vertical errors and the fact …

Flood susceptibility mapping using machine learning boosting algorithms techniques in Idukki district of Kerala India

S Saravanan, D Abijith, NM Reddy, KSS Parthasarathy… - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Kerala experiences a high rate of annual rainfall and flooding resulting in a frequent natural
disaster. The objective of this study is to develop flood susceptibility maps for the Idukki …

Evaluation of TanDEM-X DEMs on selected Brazilian sites: Comparison with SRTM, ASTER GDEM and ALOS AW3D30

CH Grohmann - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
A first assessment of the TanDEM-X DEMs over Brazilian territory is presented through a
comparison with SRTM, ASTER GDEM and ALOS AW3D30 DEMs in seven study areas with …

Toward continental hydrologic–hydrodynamic modeling in South America

VA Siqueira, RCD Paiva… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
Providing reliable estimates of streamflow and hydrological fluxes is a major challenge for
water resources management over national and transnational basins in South America …