New processing approaches on the retrieval of water levels in Envisat and SARAL radar altimetry over rivers: A case study of the São Francisco River, Brazil

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 226-241

  Maillard, Philippe ^a   Bercher, Nicolas ^b   Calmant, Stéphane ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

Envisat; Hydrology; Radar altimetry; SARAL; Water level

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); HYDROLOGY; MARINE APPLICATIONS; RIVERS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER LEVELS;

CONTINENTAL HYDROLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVISAT; PROCESSING APPROACH; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SARAL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVISAT-1; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; RIVER BANK; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; WATER LEVEL;

BRAZIL; SAO FRANCISCO RIVER;

EID: 84908377041     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.09.027     Document Type: Article

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