UAS and Satellite-Based Remote Sensing for Hydrological Observations and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Monitoring water resources at high resolution and with large spatial coverage is essential in order to achieve sustainable development at a global scale. Many regions suffer a critical lack of hydrological observations or present discontinuous measurements from sparse in situ monitoring networks. In recent years, advances in Remote Sensing observations allowed us to improve our monitoring capabilities with regard to the hydrological variables of the water cycle, such as precipitation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture and river flow. Satellite missions have been developed to characterize such variables at regional to global scale (with coarse and intermediate resolution), and UAS data are used to bridge the scales from point-to-catchment scale observations (with high spatial and temporal resolution).

This Special Issue will promote advances in Satellite and UAS methodologies for monitoring hydrological variables, exploring uncertainty and sensitivity assessments. This is crucial in order to gain a deeper understanding and modeling of hydrological processes and to address various problems related to monitoring and managing droughts, floods and water availability for different uses.

We welcome contributions with strong relevance to the characterization of hydraulic and hydrological processes and the development of modeling approaches. Studies that propose technical solutions to combine large-scale observations and local observations, as well as modeling and big data analytics tools, are encouraged.

Dr. Silvano Fortunato Dal Sasso
Dr. László Bertalan
Guest Editors

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