Indo-French Monsoon School on Hydrology from Space 2023 IISC

Creation of new env and installaion of different packages

1 Introduction

• Fundamental of the river dynamics monitoring system

  • River Discharge

  • River Water Level / River depth

  • River Extent (Width)

  • River Storage

  • Topography

Source : https://www.geo41.com/discharge

• 2.4 Remote Sensing Techniques for River Width Estimation 

  • Using Visible/Microwave mission

Session 2

References/Related Studies

1. Patidar, G., Karmakar, S. and Indu, J., 2022. Flood mapping from proxy surface water and ocean topography (SWOT) satellite mission data over India. Geocarto International, 37(27), pp.16636-16653. 

2. Durand, M., Gleason, C.J., Pavelsky, T.M., Prata de Moraes Frasson, R., Turmon, M., David, C.H., Altenau, E.H., Tebaldi, N., Larnier, K., Monnier, J. and Malaterre, P.O., 2023. A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission. Water Resources Research, 59(4), p.e2021WR031614. 

3. Gao, B.C., 1996. NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space. Remote sensing of environment, 58(3), pp.257-266. 

4. Tourian, M.J., Elmi, O., Mohammadnejad, A. and Sneeuw, N., 2017. Estimating river depth from SWOT-Type observables obtained by satellite altimetry and imagery. Water, 9(10), p.753.