South American Hydrology and Remote Sensing (South America Water from Space)

Dear Colleagues,

Earth has a limited amount of water that recycles itself in what is called the 'water cycle'. Climate, weather, and human life and activities are profoundly affected by the variability and changes in this continuous, interconnected cycle. Therefore, observing, monitoring, and predicting the key variables governing the global and regional water cycle is essential to our understanding of the Earth’s climate, forecasting our weather, predicting floods and droughts, and improving water resource management.

The progress of Earth observation satellite technologies (EO) over the past few decades has made it possible to survey several of these variables from space. In the coming years, an increasing number of satellite missions will offer an unprecedented capacity to observe the Earth’s surface, its interior, and the atmosphere, ushering in a new era in the science of the Earth Environment and the water cycle.

It is within this perspective that we are pleased to invite you to participate in this issue. Our goal is for this issue to be the first of many, an issue regularly carried out in which all those using remote sensing technologies for monitoring waters (in all its forms) in Latin America find a receptacle.

We will welcome studies focusing on applications of remote sensing techniques to investigate water cycle studies, water management issues, liquid and solid discharge in rivers, hydrometeorological risks, precipitation, the cryosphere, soil moisture, water levels and surface waters, lakes, wetlands, rivers (including calibration/validation of current satellite missions), turbulent energy fluxes and evapotranspiration, irrigation, floods, and droughts, among others. Contributions dealing with modeling of the regional water cycle in synergy with the use of remote sensing observations will also be considered. Special contributions dealing with South American regional thematic (rivers such as the Amazon, the Orinoco, La Plata, Nordeste, Sao Francisco, Biobío, arid areas like the TPDS, etc.) are a plus, but contributions dealing with tropical large river basins, in general, are also welcome.

Studies devoted to the possibilities provided by the current South America CBERS, SAOCOM, and SABIA-MAR and results from other south American satellite missions (such as SSOT-FASAT CHARLIE), PERU-SAR1, VRSS1-2 etc ) and the European COPERNICUS space program, or to the advent of the new capabilities of the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission (NASA, CNES, CSA, and UKSA) are most appreciated.

Dr. Rodrigo Abarca Del Rio
Dr. Daniel Moreira
Dr. Fabrice Papa
Dr. Rodrigo Paiva
Dr. Marielle Gosset
Dr. Waldo Lavado
Dr. Jean-Francois Cretaux
Dr. Oliver Saavedra
Dr. Philippe Maillard
Dr. Daniel Vila
Dr. Juan Leon
Dr. Vanessa Yael Bohn
Dr. Stephane Calmant
Guest Editors

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