RADAR ALTIMETRY FOR INLAND WATER: CURRENT AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

摘要

Apart from oceans and ice-sheets, radar altimeters arernshown by a plethora of works to be of considerablerninterest in monitoring inland water bodies such asrnrivers, lakes, wetlands and floodplains. More than arndecade of research on the application in the field ofrncontinental hydrology has demonstrated the advantagesrnof providing global coverage, regular temporal samplingrnand short delivery delays, especially via the acquisitionrnof numerous useful measurements over ungauged areas.rnWith the aim to investigate the benefits that can bernachieved by Sentinel-3 mission, two applications arernhere shown for selected pilot rivers and the results onrndischarge estimation are analyzed and discussed inrnterms of performance measures.