Although satellite radar altimetry was developed and optimized for open oceans, it has been used to monitor variations in the level of inland water-bodies such as lakes and rivers. Here, for the first time, we have further used the altimetry-derived variation of water level for estimating the fluctuation of water storage as an addition to the present in situ water storage estimation systems to ...

Applications involving multi-satellite altimetry (such as from ERS, TOPEX/Poseidon and, in the near future GFO) require that any differences between the altimetric databases are either negligible, resolvable by simple spatial approximations or eliminated by enhancement through dual satellite crossovers. Although orbit error for satellites such as ERS-2 has been considerably reduced over the yea...

This research deals with internal waves observation around southwest coast of Japan by using ERS-1/2 SAR and Topex/Poseidon (T/P) images during 1993-2002 period. Proposed method consisting of Symlet wavelet analysis and Canny edge detector can detect internal wave in SAR image. Internal waves were detected with higher wavelet coefficient than sea surface on horizontal and vertical detail coeffi...

This study demonstrates the use of satellite radar altimetry to detect solid Earth deformation signals such as Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA). Our study region covers moderately flat land surfaces seasonally covered by snow/ice/vegetation. The maximum solid Earth uplift of ~10 mm yr-1 is primarily due to the incomplete glacial isostatic rebound that occurs around Hudson Bay, North America. ...

Previous studies using satellite radar altimetry to observe inland river and wetland water level changes usually spatially average high-rate (10-Hz for TOPEX, 18-Hz for Envisat) measurements. Here we develop a technique to apply retracking of TOPEX waveforms by optimizing the estimated retracked gate positions using the Offset Center of Gravity retracker. This study, for the first time, utilize...