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Potter, Estela Fernandes (author), Monney, Isaac (author), Rutten, M.M. (author)Groundwater use has significantly increased in the rapidly urbanising city of Kumasi, Ghana. But there is a lack of understanding of whether the groundwater system can sustain the growing demand in the future amidst climate change and rapid urbanisation. Using remote sensing datasets and a water balance approach, this study estimated the...journal article 2023
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Yalew, S. G. (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Tran, N.B. (author), Michailovsky, C. I.B. (author), Salvadore, E. (author), Borgomeo, E. (author), Karimi, P. (author), Pareeth, S. (author), Seyoum, S. D. (author), Mul, M. L. (author)Open-access remote sensing products provide data for transboundary water management. This study presents a comprehensive overview of the applications, uncertainties and implications of these remote sensing data products in the context of transboundary water management. Focusing on different stages within the transboundary cooperation...journal article 2023
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Systematic errors observed in CryoSat-2 elevation swaths on mountain glaciers and their implicationsHaacker, J.M. (author), Wouters, B. (author), Slobbe, D.C. (author)Our awareness of ice caps' and mountain glaciers' sensitivity to climate change has driven major advances in the application of remote sensing techniques during the past decade. Regarding ESA's SARIn altimeter CryoSat-2, processing the full waveform to generate swaths of elevation estimates has become standard practice in regions of complex...journal article 2023
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Giardina, Giorgia (author), Macchiarulo, V. (author), Foroughnia, Fatemeh (author), Jones, Joshua N. (author), Whitworth, Michael R.Z. (author), Voelker, Brandon (author), Milillo, Pietro (author), Penney, Camilla (author), Adams, Keith (author), Kijewski-Correa, Tracy (author)Remote reconnaissance missions are promising solutions for the assessment of earthquake-induced structural damage and cascading geological hazards. Space-borne remote sensing can complement in-field missions when safety and accessibility concerns limit post-earthquake operations on the ground. However, the implementation of remote sensing...journal article 2023
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Mehravar, Soroosh (author), Razavi-Termeh, Seyed Vahid (author), Moghimi, Armin (author), Ranjgar, Babak (author), Foroughnia, Fatemeh (author), Amani, Meisam (author)Flood has long been known as one of the most catastrophic natural hazards worldwide. Mapping flood-prone areas is an important part of flood disaster management. In this study, a flood susceptibility mapping framework was developed based on a novel integration of nature-inspired algorithms into support vector regression (SVR). To this end,...journal article 2023
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Zhou, J. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jia, Li (author), Gao, Bo (author), Zhao, Feng (author), Cui, Yilin (author), Xiong, Xuqian (author), Liu, Xuan (author), Li, Dengchao (author)Spatiotemporal residual noise in terrestrial earth observation products, often caused by unfavorable atmospheric conditions, impedes their broad applications. Most users prefer to use gap-filled remote sensing products with time series reconstruction (TSR) algorithms. Applying currently available implementations of TSR to large-volume...journal article 2023
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Otosaka, I.N. (author), Shepherd, Andrew (author), Ivins, Erik R. (author), Schlegel, Nicole-Jeanne (author), Amory, Charles (author), Simon, K.M. (author), Schrama, Ernst (author), van der Wal, W. (author), Wouters, B. (author)Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have accelerated since the 1990s, accounting for a significant increase in the global mean sea level. Here, we present a new 29-year record of ice sheet mass balance from 1992 to 2020 from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). We compare and combine 50 independent...journal article 2023
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Roosenbrand, E.J. (author), Sun, Junzi (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)As global flight volume rises, the aviation industry is facing increasing climate challenges. One major factor is the impact of contrails, which trap outgoing terrestrial radiation and counteract emission reduction benefits from emission-optimized flight routes. Our study quantifies contrail-forming flights globally and assesses altitude...journal article 2023
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Anderson, Lindsey D. (author), Dix, Barbara (author), Schnell, Jordan (author), Yokelson, Robert (author), Veefkind, j. Pepijn (author), Ahmadov, Ravan (author), de Gouw, Joost (author)Wildfires have become larger and more frequent because of climate change, increasing their impact on air pollution. Air quality forecasts and climate models do not currently account for changes in the composition of wildfire emissions during the commonly observed progression from more flaming to smoldering combustion. Laboratory measurements...journal article 2023
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de Roda Husman, S. (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), Bolibar, J. (author), Izeboud, M. (author), Hu, Zhongyang (author), Shukla, S. (author), van der Meer, Marijn (author), Long, David (author), Wouters, B. (author)While the influence of surface melt on Antarctic ice shelf stability can be large, the duration and affected area of melt events are often small. Therefore, melt events are difficult to capture with remote sensing, as satellite sensors always face the trade-off between spatial and temporal resolution. To overcome this limitation, we developed...journal article 2023
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Yanovsky, Felix J. (author), Pitertsev, Aleksander A. (author), Unal, C.M.H. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)This paper is devoted to discussing peculiarities of W-band cloud radar calibration. After a brief overview of meteorological radar calibration methods for quantitative information retrieval, we focus on problems and their possible solutions with respect to mm-wave radar calibration. The experimental part of the research is based on multi...conference paper 2023
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Ali, M.H. (author), Popescu, Ioana (author), Jonoski, Andreja (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)This research paper presents a systematic literature review on the use of remotely sensed and/or global datasets in distributed hydrological modelling. The study aims to investigate the most commonly used datasets in hydrological models and their performance across different geographical scales of catchments, including the micro-scale (<10...review 2023
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Bennour, Ali (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zheng, Chaolei (author), Zeng, Yelong (author), Barnieh, Beatrice Asenso (author), Jiang, Min (author)Study region: Senegal river (SRB), Niger river (NRB), and Lake Chad basins (LCB). Study focus: We investigated the impacts of land use/land cover change (LULC) and climate variability on the water balance components from 1990 to 2020. We applied the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) coupled with remote sensing retrievals of actual...journal article 2023
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Gawehn, M.A. (author)The aim of this study is to innovate wave-based depth-inversion towards smarter and faster algorithms to be used with various remote sensing instruments for broad community use. Wave-based depth inversion describes a branch of coastal remote sensing, which uses video recordings of a wave-field to derive depths and thereby create digital maps of...doctoral thesis 2022
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Vermunt, P.C. (author)Observing vegetation water dynamics from space offers insights into plant-water relations and water and carbon fluxes across ecosystems at local to global scales. A promising technique to observe water in the vegetation layer is radar, an active form of microwave remote sensing. Interactions between microwaves and vegetation material depend on...doctoral thesis 2022
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Sun, J. (author)Atmospheric aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the air. The majority of them are produced by natural processes, including sea salt from oceans, mineral dust from (semi-)arid regions, carbon containing particles from wildfires, and sulfates and ash from volcanic activities. Anthropogenic aerosols are produced by industrial...doctoral thesis 2022
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Maffei, C. (author)Forest fires are a major ecosystem disturbance at global scale, put pressure on agencies in charge of citizens and infrastructure security and cause unvaluable human losses. Fires are controlled by multiple static and dynamic drivers related to topography, land cover, climate, weather, and anthropic activity. Among these, weather is an active...doctoral thesis 2022
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Gawehn, M.A. (author), Almar, Rafael (author), Bergsma, Erwin W. J. (author), de Vries, S. (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author)Optical satellite images of the nearshore water surface offer the possibility to invert water depths and thereby constitute the underlying bathymetry. Depth inversion techniques based on surface wave patterns can handle clear and turbid waters in a variety of global coastal environments. Common depth inversion algorithms require video from shore...journal article 2022
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Kovacevic, Meho Sasa (author), Bačić, Mario (author), Librić, Lovorka (author), Gavin, Kenneth (author)To identify the unknown values of the parameters of Burger’s constitutive law, commonly used for the evaluation of the creep behavior of the soft soils, this paper demonstrates a procedure relying on the data obtained from multiple sensors, where each sensor is used to its best advantage. The geophysical, geotechnical, and unmanned aerial...journal article 2022
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Roosenbrand, E.J. (author), Sun, Junzi (author), Dedoussi, I.C. (author), Stam, D.M. (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Sustainability is the biggest challenge facing the aerospace industry today. With the global number of flights expected to rise, the climate impact of aviation will continue to increase. Current research states that the rerouting of aircraft through wind-optimisation for the purpose of fuel usage minimisation and emission reduction is an...conference paper 2022