Remote Sensing of Inland Water: Observations, Processing and Application in Hydrological Modeling
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2020) | Viewed by 6201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; inland water; satellite radar and laser altimetry; time series modeling; geostatistics
Interests: hydrology; altimetry; optical imagery; cold regions
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Dear Colleagues,
Continental freshwater is essential to both human and animal life on our planet. Furthermore, changes in water level and volume are important indicators of the local and regional climate. Remote sensing techniques are efficient tools to monitor and map changes of inland water, typically with global or near-global coverage. Several sensors are interesting for inland water. One example is satellite altimetry, that during the last 25 years has provided along-track measurements of surface elevation allowing the construction of time series of water level change. With the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) altimeter on-board CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 and the recently launched laser altimeter on-board ICESat-2 it is possible to accurately study smaller inland water bodies. Another example is optical and SAR imagery, e.g., from Landsat and Sentinel-1 and 2, that can determine surface water extent, which combined with altimetry provides the volume change. The hydrological parameters obtained from space provide important knowledge in our understanding of climate change and local to global scale hydrology and are additionally of great value in the calibration and validation of hydrological models.
The goal of this Special Issue of Remote Sensing is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that demonstrate novel uses of remote sensing of inland water including innovative processing techniques to achieve accurate hydrological parameters, new insights into inland water processes, and integration in hydrological modeling. The applied data may originate from altimetry and satellite imagery but other sensors are welcome too.
Dr. Karina Nielsen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- radar altimetry
- laser altimetry
- satellite altimetry
- lake, river, and wetland level
- water storage
- river discharge
- hydrological modeling
- water extent
- optical sensors
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