Creating a water depth map from SAR flood extent and topography data

Authors

P. Matgen, L. Giustarini, M. Chini, R, Hostache, M. Wood, and S. Schlaffer

Reference

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2016): Advancing the understanding of our living planet, July 10-15, 2016, Beijing, China, pp. 7635-7638, art. no. 7730991, 2016

Description

Observations of the temporal and spatial variations of water depth in rivers and floodplains are very important in operational hydrology. However, our capacity to monitor water depth at large scale is still very limited. As a result, the need to measure water storage changes in all wetlands, lakes, and reservoirs has motivated the radar interferometry-based Surface Water Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) scheduled for launch in 2020.

Link

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730991