Table of Contents



## **Chapter 2: Hydrological Modeling**


Hydrological Impacts of Urbanization of Two Catchments in Harare, Zimbabwe Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2014**, *6*(12), 12544-12574 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/12/12544....................................................................... 84

## **Emad Habib, Alemseged Tamiru Haile, Nazmus Sazib, Yu Zhang and Tom Rientjes**

Effect of Bias Correction of Satellite-Rainfall Estimates on Runoff Simulations at the Source of the Upper Blue Nile Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2014**, *6*(7), 6688-6708 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/7/6688 ........................................................................ 116

### **Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike and Xin Li**

Applicability of Multi-Frequency Passive Microwave Observations and Data Assimilation Methods for Improving NumericalWeather Forecasting in Niger, Africa Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2014**, *6*(6), 5306-5324 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/6/5306 ........................................................................ 137

## **Chapter 3: Evapotranspiration**


### **Nadia Akdim, Silvia Maria Alfieri, Adnane Habib, Abdeloihab Choukri, Elijah K. Cheruiyot, Kamal Labbassi and Massimo Menenti**


## **Wim G.M. Bastiaanssen, Poolad Karimi, Lisa-Maria Rebelo, Zheng Duan, Gabriel Senay, Lal Muthuwatte and Vladimir Smakhtin**



### **Henok Alemu, Gabriel B. Senay, Armel T. Kaptue and Valeriy Kovalskyy**

Evapotranspiration Variability and Its Association with Vegetation Dynamics in the Nile Basin, 2002–2011 Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2014**, *6*(7), 5885-5908 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/7/5885 ........................................................................ 353

## **Chapter 4: Surface Water Hydrology**

## **Dirk Eilander, Frank O. Annor, Lorenzo Iannini and Nick van de Giesen**

Remotely Sensed Monitoring of Small Reservoir Dynamics: A Bayesian Approach Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2014**, *6*(2), 1191-1210 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/2/1191 ........................................................................ 381

## **Donato Amitrano, Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Francesco Mitidieri, Maria Nicolina Papa, Daniele Riccio and Giuseppe Ruello**


## **Elijah K. Cheruiyot, Collins Mito, Massimo Menenti, Ben Gorte, Roderik Koenders and Nadia Akdim**


## **Mélanie Becker, Joecila Santos da Silva, Stéphane Calmant, Vivien Robinet, Laurent Linguet and Frédérique Seyler**


## **Eric Muala, Yasir A. Mohamed, Zheng Duan and Pieter van der Zaag**

Estimation of Reservoir Discharges from Lake Nasser and Roseires Reservoir in the Nile Basin Using Satellite Altimetry and Imagery Data Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2014**, *6*(8), 7522-7545 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7522 ........................................................................ 461

### **Muriel Bergé-Nguyen and Jean-François Crétaux**

Inundations in the Inner Niger Delta: Monitoring and Analysis Using MODIS and Global Precipitation Datasets Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2015**, *7*(2), 2127-2151 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/2/2127 ........................................................................ 485

## **Alena Dostálová, Marcela Doubková, Daniel Sabel, Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger and Wolfgang Wagner**

Seven Years of Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Global Monitoring (GM) of Surface Soil Moisture over Africa Reprinted from: *Remote Sens.* **2014**, *6*(8), 7683-7707 http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/7683 ........................................................................ 511
