Scientometric reviews, facilitated by computational and visual analytical approaches, allow researchers to gain a thorough understanding of research trends and areas of concentration from a large number of publications. With the fast development of s...
Satellite altimetry technology has unparalleled advantages in the monitoring of hydrological resources. After decades of development, satellite altimetry technology has achieved a perfect integration from the geometric research of geodesy to the natu...
Marine gravity field recovery relies heavily on satellite altimetry. Thanks to the evolution of altimetry missions and the improvements in altimeter data processing methods, the marine gravity field model has been prominently enhanced in accuracy and...
More than 30 years of observations from an international suite of satellite altimeter missions continue to provide key data enabling research discoveries and a broad spectrum of operational and user-driven applications. These missions were designed t...
Satellite altimeters have been producing, as of 1992, an amazing and historic record of sea level changes. As Europe moves into full operational altimetry, it has become imperative that the quality of these monitoring signals with their uncertainties...
Satellite altimetry plays a key role in monitoring changes in sea level and climate change. The quality of satellite altimetry products is commonly ensured through dedicated calibration. One such calibration is with microwave transponders acting as g...
Satellite laser altimetry can obtain sub-meter or even centimeter-scale surface elevation data over large areas, but it is inevitably affected by scattering caused by clouds, aerosols, and other atmospheric particles. This laser ranging error caused...
Satellite altimetry observations are checked against in situ measurements to assess the capability of this remote sensing technique to describe the surface circulation in the Ligurian Sea. CTD profiles were collected during five oceanographic campaig...
Satellite altimetry is an efficient instrument for detection dynamical processes in the World Ocean, including reconstruction of geostrophic currents and tracking of mesoscale eddies. Satellite altimetry has the potential to detect large river plumes...
Satellite altimetry can fill the spatial gaps of in-situ gauging networks especially in poorly gauged regions. Although at a generally low temporal resolution, satellite altimetry has been successfully used for water surface elevation (WSE) estimatio...
Imaging Radar Altimeter (IRA) is the current development tendency for ocean surface topography (OST) altimetry, which utilizes Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and interferometry to improve the spatial resolution of OST to several kilometers or even be...
Only approximately 20% of the global seafloor topography has been finely modeled. The rest either lacks data or its data are not accurate enough to meet practical requirements. On the one hand, the satellite altimeter has the advantages of large-scal...
Satellite altimetry and tide gauges are the two main techniques used to measure sea level. Due to the limitations of satellite altimetry, a high-quality unified sea level model from coast to open ocean has traditionally been difficult to achieve. Thi...
In the Congo Basin, the elevated vulnerability of food security and the water supply implies that sustainable development strategies must incorporate the effects of climate change on hydrological regimes. However, the lack of observational hydro-clim...
In satellite altimetry calibration, the atmosphere’s integrated water vapor content has been customarily derived through the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), principally over land where the satellite radiometer is not operational. Pr...
A satellite altimetry mission can measure high-precision sea surface height (SSH) to recover a marine gravity field. The reference gravity field model plays an important role in this recovery. In this paper, reference gravity field models with differ...
GaoFen 7 (GF-7) is China’s first submeter high-resolution stereo mapping satellite with dual-linear-array cameras and a laser altimeter system onboard for high-precision mapping. To further take advantage of the very high elevation accuracy of...
Impact and risk assessments in coastal areas are informed by current and future sea level rise and acceleration, which demands a better understanding of drivers for regional sea level acceleration. In our study, we analyze the near-coastal sea level...
Remote sensing data are essential for monitoring the Earth’s surface waters, especially since the amount of publicly available in-situ data is declining. Satellite altimetry provides valuable information on the water levels and variations of la...
To ensure the accuracy of large-scale optical stereo image bundle block adjustment, it is necessary to provide well-distributed ground control points (GCPs) with high accuracy. However, it is difficult to acquire control points through field measurem...
Two remote sensing methods, satellite altimetry and 4D-Var assimilation of satellite imagery, are used to compute surface velocity fields in the Black Sea region. Surface currents derived from the two methods are compared for several cases with inten...
Coastal flooding and retreat are markedly enhanced by sea-level rise. Thus, it is crucial to determine the sea-level variation at the local scale to support coastal hazard assessment and related management policies. In this work we focus on sea-level...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission is able to observe the global large-scale mass and water cycle for the first time with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. However, no other time-varying gravity fields validate G...
This study successfully uses satellite altimetry, including Topex/Poseidon and Jason-2, retrieved by novel retrackers to monitor vertical land motions in Southwestern Taiwan. Satellite altimetry was originally designed to measure open oceans, so wave...
For low Earth orbiting satellites, non-gravitational forces cause one of the largest perturbing accelerations. During a precise orbit determination (POD), the accurate modeling of the satellite-body attitude and solar panel orientation is important s...
The proposed Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission aims to improve spaceborne estimates of river discharge through its measurements of water surface elevation, river width and slope. SWOT, however, will not observe baseflow depth, which l...
Satellite altimetry can provide long-term water level time series for water bodies lacking hydrological stations. Few studies have evaluated the performance of HY-2C and Sentinel-6 satellites in inland water bodies, as they have operated for less tha...
Global mean sea level has been rising at an increasing rate, especially since the early 19th century in response to ocean thermal expansion and ice sheet melting. The possible consequences of sea level rise pose a significant threat to coastal cities...
The development of satellite altimetry has significantly advanced the application of satellite Earth observation technologies in surface water monitoring, resulting in a substantial body of research. Although numerous reviews have summarized progress...
The sea surface is variable in time and space; therefore, many researchers are currently interested in searching for dependencies and connections with the elements influencing this diversity, e.g., with the seabed topography. An important problem is...
Despite increasing interest in monitoring the global water cycle, the availability of in situ gauging and discharge time series is decreasing. However, this lack of ground data can partly be compensated for by using remote sensing techniques to obser...
Open water areas surrounded by sea ice significantly influence the ocean-ice-atmosphere interaction and contribute to Arctic climate change. Satellite altimetry can detect these ice openings and enables one to estimate sea surface heights and further...
With the increasing number of reservoirs on the Nile River Basin, it has become important to understand the reservoir operations in the basin for coordinated water management among the various countries. With the lack of a proper framework for data s...
At present, some mapping satellites, such as GaoFen-7 and ZiYuan3-03, are equipped with both optical stereo cameras and laser altimeters that can synchronously obtain stereo images and sparse ground laser altimetry points (LAPs). To effectively impro...
This paper presents the feasibility of estimating discharges from Roseires Reservoir (Sudan) for the period from 2002 to 2010 and Aswan High Dam/Lake Nasser (Egypt) for the periods 1999–2002 and 2005–2009 using satellite altimetry and imagery with li...
To evaluate the prospects of multi-antenna GNSS buoy and mooring array in ocean altimetry satellite calibration, experiments are conducted in the ocean around Qianliyan islet in China’s Yellow Sea. The trials aim to validate the feasibility of...
Recent advancements in satellite Earth observation (EO) technology have significantly improved the accuracy and density of data available for monitoring rivers and streams, as well as for diagnosing errors in hydraulic models. Laser and radar altimet...
Satellite altimetry has been effectively used for monitoring lake level changes in recent years. This work focused on the integration of multiple satellite altimetry datasets from ICESat-1, Envisat and Cryosat-2 for the long-term (2002–2017) ob...
There is a dearth of studies characterizing historical sea level variability at the local scale for the islands in the Caribbean. This is due to the lack of reliable long term tide gauge data. There is, however, a significant need for such studies gi...
We present the validation of the latest version F Geophysical Data Records (GDR-F) for the TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P) altimetry satellite mission. The GDR-F products represent a major evolution with respect to the preceding version B Merged Geophysical Dat...
Water level (WL) and water volume (WV) of surface-water bodies are among the most crucial variables used in water-resources assessment and management. They fluctuate as a result of climatic forcing, and they are considered as indicators of climatic i...
Sea level change is a key indicator of climate change, and the prediction of sea level rise is one of most important scientific issues. In this paper, the gridded sea level anomaly (SLA) data from satellite altimetry are used to analyze the sea level...
River discharges are critical for understanding hydrologic and ecological systems, yet in situ data are limited in many regions of the world. While approximating river discharge using satellite-derived water surface characteristics is possible, the k...
High spatial resolution Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) sea surface altimetry is of great significance for extracting precise information from sea surface topography. The nadir antenna is one of the key payloads for the GNSS...
As global navigation satellite system (GNSS)stations are sparsely distributed in oceanic area, oceanic areas usually have lower precision than continental areas on a global ionosphere maps (GIM). On the other hand, space-borne observations like satel...
The main aim of the article was to analyse the actual accuracy of determining the vertical movements of the Earth’s crust (VMEC) based on time series made of four measurement techniques: satellite altimetry (SA), tide gauges (TG), fixed GNSS stations...
Rising sea levels amplify the threat and magnitude of storm surges in coastal areas. The U.S. east coast region north of Cape Hatteras has shown a significant sea level rise acceleration and is believed to be a “hot-spot” for accelerating...
This study investigates the potential of satellite altimetry for water level time series estimation of smaller inland waters where only very few measurements above the water surface are available. A new method was developed using off-nadir measuremen...
A comprehensive analysis was carried out to investigate the driving factors and influencing mechanisms of spatiotemporal variation of sea level at multiple scales in the East China Sea (ECS) via satellite altimetry datasets from 1993 to 2020. Based o...
Sea-ice thickness (SIT) from satellites is an essential climate variable for characterizing the ice-covered ocean and evaluating numerical models. Although satellite altimetry is a promising option to obtain sustainable circum-Antarctic SIT estimates...
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