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    Water

    Continental hydrology, Climate change, Quantitative management, Drought

    The product

    • Surface time series
    • Annual / multi-year occurrence
    • Water level monitoring using spatial altimetry (including SWOT)
    • Qualification of water surface/height relationships
    • Volume variation
    • Temporal monitoring of a river’s elevation profile

    Goals

    • Measure the impact of climate change on resource availability
    • Provide knowledge of water resources essential for the implementation of public policies
    • Anticipate the risk of drought and manage short-term crises
    • Validate and complete in situ data

    For who?

    • Intergovernmental organization
    • Government
    • Community
    • Water agency
    • Basin manager
    • Reservoir manager
    • Science

    Characteristics

    • Combined use of satellite images and spatial altimetry data
    • Automated water surface detection algorithm (ExtractEO)
    • Final products in the form of synthetic graphics (file or interface)
    • Intermediate products in raster and vector format
    • Local to national scale
    • Main partners: CNES, CS Group, vorteX-io, Hydro Matters, CLS, Noveltis, LEGOS

    References

    • France2030 – Hydrologie spatiale
    • SWOT Cal/Val
    • ESA Climate Change Initiative – Lakes
    • ST3TART – Sentinel-3 validation
    • ESA Dragon