Radar Altimetry Water Level and Elevation
Estimating water discharge from large radar altimetry datasets
... of water storage and transport over the continents using re- mote sensing ...particular, radar altimetry, firstly de- signed to monitor the oceans, has motivated the develop- ment of techniques ...
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Ice Sheet Elevation Change in West Antarctica From Ka Band Satellite Radar Altimetry
... in elevation between AltiKa and IceBridge is related to AltiKa’s coarser ground footprint and the sloping terrain of the study ...detect elevation change with good levels of agreement with both airborne ...
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Ice Sheet Elevation Change in West Antarctica From Ka‐Band Satellite Radar Altimetry
... surface elevation change from Ka ‐band satellite radar ...laser altimetry and CryoSat‐2 satellite Ku‐band radar ...in elevation and elevation change in the range −59 to 68 m and ...
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Capability of pulse-limited satellite radar altimetry to monitor inland water bodies
... Satellite altimetry Satellite radar altimeters were primarily designed to study variations in the water surface of open ocean and ice sheets (Fu and Cazenave, ...in radar systems and data ...
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Satellite Radar Altimetry for Inland Hydrologic Studies
... Timely water level measurements with adequate temporal and spatial resolutions are among the other data types which play a critical role for accurate flood modeling and ...Satellite altimetry has the ...
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Niger discharge from radar altimetry: bridging gaps between gauge and altimetry time series
... For Koulikoro, altimetric discharge is derived from the En- visat and SARAL/Altika missions at 35 d temporal resolu- tion. We observed that for GR4J, the rating curves for the two different satellite data sets – i.e., ...
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The application of aperture synthesis techniques to satellite radar altimetry
... continental geophysics. This includes the study of the motion of the continents and interaction between their boundaries, and the deformation of the Earth's crust and earthquake activities. Polar ice sheets, consisting ...
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Monitoring of water level, waves and ice with radar gauges
... 2 Radar backscatter signal of an ice-free sea surface (solid line) and of an ice-covered sea surface (dotted line) It is obvious that directly at the sensor the backscattered radio intensity is relatively high and ...
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Cascading water underneath Wilkes Land, East Antarctic ice sheet, observed using altimetry and digital elevation models
... of water underneath the ice sheet to- ward the ...of water that drained from Lake Cook E2 by differencing digital elevation models (DEM) de- rived from ASTER and SPOT5 stereo imagery acquired in ...
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Satellite radar altimetry for monitoring small rivers and lakes in Indonesia
... satellite altimetry to retrieve water lev- els of a river used waveform shapes to match the specular characteristics that exclusively belong to the signals returned by the river (Koblinsky et ...of ...
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A new digital elevation model of Antarctica derived from CryoSat-2 altimetry
... digital elevation model (DEM) of the Antarctic ice sheet and ice shelves based on ...satellite radar al- timeter between July 2010 and July ...to elevation measurements accumulated within 1, 2, and 5 ...
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Operational reservoir inflow forecasting with radar altimetry: the Zambezi case study
... study, radar altimetry from the Envisat satellite was used to update the reach storages in a Muskingum routing scheme coupled to a simple floodplain model and driven by the output of a rainfall–runoff ...of ...
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River monitoring from satellite radar altimetry in the Zambezi River basin
... than water level is usu- ally the variable of interest to hydrologists, the next step af- ter acquiring river stage measurements is conversion to dis- ...relating water level to discharge is ...
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New observations of Arctic sea ice from satellite radar altimetry
... Cap Nowcast/Forecast System (ACNFS) also assimilates sea ice data [Hebert et al., 2015; Posey et al., 2015]. ACNFS is designed to provide short-term (1–7 day) forecasts of Arctic sea ice and ocean conditions, and does ...
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Calibration of hydrological models using TOPEX/Poseidon radar altimetry observations
... satellite radar altimetric observations of river water level at the basin outlet, aiming at providing a new direction for solving the calibration problem in ungauged basins where streamflow ...
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Water level measurements using COSMO-SkyMed synthetic aperture radar
... of water levels monitoring, for rivers or dam’s reservoirs, through a SAR signal processing ...the water level temporal variations. To achieve water level measurements, the proposed ...
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Detection and classification of sea ice from spaceborne multi-frequency synthetic aperture radar imagery and radar altimetry
... Under freezing conditions, the thickness of the ice constantly grows from the bottom of the ice sheet. This process is known as congelation and the ice transforms from young to first-year sea ice. Ice growth at this ...
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Four decades of Antarctic surface elevation changes from multi-mission satellite altimetry
... satellite altimetry missions, observation modes and tech- ...pulse-limited radar altimetry ensures that two fundamental steps in pro- cessing of radar ice altimetry, the waveform ...
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The penetration effects on TanDEM-X elevation using the GNSS and laser altimetry measurements in Antarctica
... Aperture Radar (SAR) has been widely used in many different fields, such as geoscience, climate monitoring, security- related ...the radar signal has the ability to penetrate the ground surface which can ...
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Water-Table Elevation and Depth to Water Table
... Water-table information is considered in land-use programs, surface-water-infiltration planning, and construction projects. These maps provide only a general geographic context for the state. Site ...
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