Hypsometry of Lakes and Reservoirs | Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI)

Content: General | Processing Strategy | Data Holding | Data Versions | Citation

General

This product contains river discharge time series which are estimated by using remote sensing data only. It can provide important information for hydrological applications such as models. The figure on the right shows as an example the discharge for the Lena, River.

Formula of Hypsometry of Ray Roberts Lake

Processing Strategy

This product is estimated within the processing strategry of volume variations for lakes and reservoirs. Therefore, more information can be found here.

Data Holding

DAHITI currently provides 69 hypsometry models distributed over all continents, except Antarctica. In Africa (8 time series), Asia (7), Australia (1), Europe (4), North America (42), and South America (7) water occurrence masks are available. The hypsometry models in DAHITI are freely available and can be downloaded after a short registration process. The amount of hypsometry models is permanently increasing.

Data Versions

This product is processed in the processing chain of volume variations.
More information can be found here.

Citation

Don't forget to cite!
If you are using hypsometry models from DAHITI in your work, please cite the following publication:

Schwatke C., Dettmering D., and Seitz F.: Volume Variations of Small Inland Water Bodies from a Combination of Satellite Altimetry and Optical Imagery. Remote Sensing, 12(10), 1606, doi:10.3390/rs12101606, 2020