Journal
HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 1043-1054Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9647
Keywords
radar altimetry; Landsat; remote sensing; discharge estimates; Mekong; Ob
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- European Space Agency
- Natural Environment Research Council National Centre for Earth Observation Mission Support programme
- EPSRC [EP/G013403/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G013403/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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A methodology is developed to estimate daily river discharge at an ungauged site using remote sensing data. Use is made of ERS-2 and ENVISAT satellite altimetry to provide a time series of river channel stage levels and longitudinal channel slope and Landsat satellite imagery to provide a range of channel widths over a 50km reach of river. The data are substituted into the Bjerklie et al. () equation, which is based on the Manning's resistance equation and has been developed using a global database of channel hydraulic information and discharge measurements. Our methodology has been applied at three locations on the Mekong and Ob Rivers and validated against daily in situ discharge measurements. The results show Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency values of 0.90 at Nakhon Phanom and 0.86 at Vientiane on the Mekong, and 0.86 at Kalpashevo on the Ob. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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