TY - JOUR
T1 - Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO)
T2 - results from 50 years of remote sensing in hydrology
AU - Hessels, Tim
AU - Davids, Jeffrey C.
AU - Bastiaanssen, Wim
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Strategic planning of water management at the river-basin scale requires (1) measurement and accounting of individual hydrological processes, (2) quantification of water resources, and (3) their optimal allocation. Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO) is an open-access parameterization enabling automated reporting of water footprints and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators. We present its systematic arrangement and input datasets, and demonstrate its accuracy by independent riverflow measurements. We also review some achievements in remote sensing for hydrology during the last 50 years in quantifying hydrological and water management processes, flows, fluxes and changes in storage from various independent sources; and append mathematical formulations.
AB - Strategic planning of water management at the river-basin scale requires (1) measurement and accounting of individual hydrological processes, (2) quantification of water resources, and (3) their optimal allocation. Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO) is an open-access parameterization enabling automated reporting of water footprints and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators. We present its systematic arrangement and input datasets, and demonstrate its accuracy by independent riverflow measurements. We also review some achievements in remote sensing for hydrology during the last 50 years in quantifying hydrological and water management processes, flows, fluxes and changes in storage from various independent sources; and append mathematical formulations.
KW - 50 years of remote sensing hydrology
KW - internal calibration
KW - open-access Earth observation databases
KW - rapid water accounting
KW - scalable water balance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85140832290&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02508060.2022.2117896
DO - 10.1080/02508060.2022.2117896
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140832290
SN - 0250-8060
VL - 47
SP - 866
EP - 886
JO - Water International
JF - Water International
IS - 6
ER -