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Automatic detection of inland water bodies along altimetry tracks for estimating surface water storage variations in the Congo basin / Frédéric Frappart in Remote sensing, vol 13 n° 19 (October-1 2021)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 13 n° 19 (October-1 2021) . - n° 3804 Titre : Automatic detection of inland water bodies along altimetry tracks for estimating surface water storage variations in the Congo basin Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Frédéric Frappart, Auteur ; Pierre Zeiger, Auteur ; Julie Betbeder, Auteur ; Valéry Gond, Auteur ; Régis Bellot , Auteur ; Nicolas Baghdadi, Auteur ; Fabien Blarel, Auteur ; José Darrozes, Auteur ; Luc Bourrel, Auteur ; Frédérique Seyler, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Projets : TOSCA / Article en page(s) : n° 3804 Note générale : bibliographie This research was funded by CNES TOSCA grants number CASCHMIR and SWHYM. Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] classification par nuées dynamiques [Termes IGN] Congo (bassin) [Termes IGN] détection automatique [Termes IGN] données altimétriques [Termes IGN] eau de surface [Termes IGN] estimation statistique [Termes IGN] image Envisat-ASAR [Termes IGN] image Jason-AMR [Termes IGN] niveau de l'eau [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] stockage [Termes IGN] volume d'eau [Termes IGN] zone humide Résumé : (auteur) Surface water storage in floodplains and wetlands is poorly known from regional to global scales, in spite of its importance in the hydrological and the carbon balances, as the wet areas are an important water compartment which delays water transfer, modifies the sediment transport through sedimentation and erosion processes, and are a source for greenhouse gases. Remote sensing is a powerful tool for monitoring temporal variations in both the extent, level, and volume, of water using the synergy between satellite images and radar altimetry. Estimating water levels over flooded area using radar altimetry observation is difficult. In this study, an unsupervised classification approach is applied on the radar altimetry backscattering coefficients to discriminate between flooded and non-flooded areas in the Cuvette Centrale of Congo. Good detection of water (open water, permanent and seasonal inundation) is above 0.9 using radar altimetry backscattering from ENVISAT and Jason-2. Based on these results, the time series of water levels were automatically produced. They exhibit temporal variations in good agreement with the hydrological regime of the Cuvette Centrale. Comparisons against a manually generated time series of water levels from the same missions at the same locations show a very good agreement between the two processes (i.e., RMSE ≤ 0.25 m in more than 80%/90% of the cases and R ≥ 0.95 in more than 95%/75% of the cases for ENVISAT and Jason-2, respectively). The use of the time series of water levels over rivers and wetlands improves the spatial pattern of the annual amplitude of water storage in the Cuvette Centrale. It also leads to a decrease by a factor of four for the surface water estimates in this area, compared with a case where only time series over rivers are considered. Numéro de notice : A2021-935 Affiliation des auteurs : IGN+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.3390/rs13193804 Date de publication en ligne : 23/09/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13193804 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99542 [article]

SNR-based water height retrieval in rivers: Application to high amplitude asymmetric tides in the Garonne river / Pierre Zeiger in Remote sensing, vol 13 n° 9 (May-1 2021)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 13 n° 9 (May-1 2021) . - n° 1856 Titre : SNR-based water height retrieval in rivers: Application to high amplitude asymmetric tides in the Garonne river Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Pierre Zeiger, Auteur ; Frédéric Frappart, Auteur ; José Darrozes, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 1856 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] crue [Termes IGN] filtrage du bruit [Termes IGN] Garonne (bassin) [Termes IGN] interférence [Termes IGN] marée océanique [Termes IGN] modèle d'inversion [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] surveillance hydrologique Résumé : (auteur) Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) time series acquired by a geodetic antenna were analyzed to retrieve water heights during asymmetric tides on a narrow river using the Interference Pattern Technique (IPT) from Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R). The dynamic SNR method was selected because the elevation rate of the reflecting surface during rising tides is high in the Garonne River with macro tidal conditions. A new process was developed to filter out the noise introduced by the environmental conditions on the reflected signal due to the narrowness of the river compared to the size of the Fresnel areas, the presence of vegetation on the river banks, and the presence of boats causing multiple reflections. This process involved the removal of multipeaks in the Lomb-Scargle Periodogram (LSP) output and an iterative least square estimation (LSE) of the output heights. Evaluation of the results was performed against pressure-derived water heights. The best results were obtained using all GNSS bands (L1, L2, and L5) simultaneously: R = 0.99, ubRMSD = 0.31 m. We showed that the quality of the retrieved heights was consistent, whatever the vertical velocity of the reflecting surface, and was highly dependent on the number of satellites visible. The sampling period of our solution was 1 min with a 5-min moving window, and no tide models or fit were used in the inversion process. This highlights the potential of the dynamic SNR method to detect and monitor extreme events with GNSS-R, including those affecting inland waters such as flash floods. Numéro de notice : A2021-406 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs13091856 Date de publication en ligne : 10/05/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091856 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97722 [article]