Estimation of Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Based on Satellite Remote Sensing Datasets
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 November 2025 | Viewed by 9
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Interests: climate science; geodynamics; geophysics
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Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing data obtained from space geodetic techniques, such as satellite gravimetry, GNSS, InSAR, satellite altimetry, and combinations of these have greatly advanced our knowledge of global, regional, and local water storage (including the cryosphere) and its temporal and spatial variability. These techniques have successfully documented the effects of global warming on freshwater resources around the world. As new platforms and processing techniques are continuously being developed, our community faces new challenges and opportunities to improve our understanding of water storage.
This Special Issue will highlight these remote sensing methods and their applications for observing terrestrial water storage and its variability. This Special Issue will publish studies covering all of the aspects of satellite gravimetry, satellite altimetry, InSAR, and GNSS techniques as they pertain to improving our understanding of the changing terrestrial water storage (including the cryosphere). We are also interested in the theory, methods, techniques, algorithms, data validation, scientific products, and applications of remote sensing in this field. Review articles are also welcome. Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Space geodetic observations of terrestrial water storage on all scales;
- Water cycle from precipitation to runoff and evaporation;
- How water is responding to environmental and human activities;
- Flooding and drought;
- Ice mass changes;
- Water budgets in a specific region.
Prof. Dr. Tonie Van Dam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrogeodesy
- terrestrial water storage
- space geodetic methods
- drought and flooding
- climate warming
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