Water level monitoring using radar remote sensing data: Application to Lake Kivu, central Africa

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 13-16, 2009, Pages 722-728

  Munyaneza, Omar ^a,b   Wali, Umaru G ^a   Uhlenbrook, Stefan ^b,c   Maskey, Shreedhar ^b   Mlotha, McArd J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Lake Kivu; Lake level; Radar altimetry; Rwanda; Satellite images

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; BATHYMETRIC DATA; CENTRAL AFRICA; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; DATA CONTINUITY; DATA SETS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO; EARTH'S SURFACE; ENVISAT; GAUGING STATIONS; IN-SITU; LAKE LEVEL; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE WATER LEVEL; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; RADAR WAVES; RWANDA; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SATELLITE MISSION; SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE RECEIVERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE AREA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WATER LEVEL MONITORING; WATER-LEVEL DATA;

BATHYMETRY; GAGES; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WATER LEVELS;

LAKES;

BATHYMETRY; ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAKE LEVEL; LAKE WATER; MONITORING SYSTEM; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER LEVEL;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE KIVU; RWANDA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 69349086131     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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