Remote Sensing and Water Resources

This book is a collection of overview articles showing how space-based observations, combined with hydrological modeling, have considerably improved our knowledge of the continental water cycle and its sensitivity to climate change. Two main issues are hi

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Remote Sensing and Water Resources

A. Cazenave · N. Champollion · J. Benveniste J. Chen Editors

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Space Sciences Series of ISSI Volume 55

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6592

A. Cazenave N. Champollion J. Benveniste J. Chen •



Editors

Remote Sensing and Water Resources

Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2016

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Editors A. Cazenave International Space Science Institute Bern Switzerland

J. Benveniste European Space Agency European Space Research Institute Frascati Italy

and J. Chen Center for Space Research University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX USA

LEGOS-CNES Toulouse France N. Champollion International Space Science Institute Bern Switzerland

ISSN 1385-7525 Space Sciences Series of ISSI ISBN 978-3-319-32448-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32449-4

ISBN 978-3-319-32449-4

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Contents

Foreword: International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Workshop on Remote Sensing and Water Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Cazenave, N. Champollion, J. Benveniste and J. Chen Modelling Freshwater Resources at the Global Scale: Challenges and Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petra Döll, Hervé Douville, Andreas Güntner, Hannes Müller Schmied and Yoshihide Wada On the Use of Hydrological Models and Satellite Data to Study the Water Budget of River Basins Affected by Human Activities: Examples from the Garonne Basin