Altimetry for inland water

Karina Nielsen, Lars Stenseng, Heidi Villadsen, Ole B. Andersen, Per Knudsen

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Abstract

With the globally decreasing amount of in-situ stations, satellite altimetry based water levels are an important supplement to obtain continuous time series of the worlds inland water. In this study we demonstrate two new services, that are related to inland water and altimetry. The first is Altimetry for inland water (AltWater), which is a new open service, that provides altimetry based time series for inland water. Currently, the service includes data from cryoSat- 2, but we intend to add other missions in future versions. The second,tsHydro, is a software package, that is implemented in the open source environment "R". The package enables the user to easily construct water level time series for lakes and rivers based on along-track altimetry data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of Living Planet Symposium 2016
EditorsL. Ouwehand
PublisherEuropean Space Agency
Publication date1 Aug 2016
ISBN (Electronic)9789292213053
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2016
EventLiving Planet Symposium 2016 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 9 May 201613 May 2016

Conference

ConferenceLiving Planet Symposium 2016
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period09/05/201613/05/2016
SponsorACRI-Group, Congress Tourism Grant Programme of the Prague City Municipality, et al., EUMETSAT, European Commission, Praha.eu (Portal of Prague)
SeriesEuropean Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
VolumeSP-740
ISSN0379-6566

Keywords

  • CryoSat-2
  • Lakes
  • Satellite altimetry

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