Overview
- Presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the continental water cycle
- Covers hydrology from space, an emerging research theme
- Offers an overview of space observations on land waters, including underground waters
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI (SSSI, volume 55)
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Over the past 15 years, remote sensing techniques have increasingly demonstrated theircapability to monitor components of the water balance of large river basins on time scales ranging from months to decades: satellite altimetry routinely monitors water level changes in large rivers, lakes and floodplains. When combined with satellite imagery, this technique can also measure surface water volume variations. Passive and active microwave sensors offer important information on soil moisture (e.g. the SMOS mission) as well as wetlands and snowpack. The GRACE space gravity mission offers, for the first time, the possibility of directly measuring spatio-temporal variations in the total vertically integrated terrestrial water storage. When combined with other space observations (e.g. from satellite altimetry and SMOS) or model estimates of surface waters and soil moisture, space gravity data can effectively measure groundwater storage variations. New satellite missions, planned for the coming years, will complement the constellation of satellites monitoring waters on land. This is particularly the case for the SWOT mission, which is expected to revolutionize land surface hydrology.
Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 37, No. 2, 2016
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remote Sensing and Water Resources
Editors: A. Cazenave, N. Champollion, J. Benveniste, J. Chen
Series Title: Space Sciences Series of ISSI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32449-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32448-7Published: 13 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81288-5Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32449-4Published: 04 May 2016
Series ISSN: 1385-7525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 337
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 65 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 37, No. 2, 2016
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Hydrology/Water Resources, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry