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Retrieving Time Series of River Water Extent from Global Inland Water Data Sets

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Elmi,  Omid
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Tourian,  Mohammad J.
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

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Elmi, O., Tourian, M. J. (2023): Retrieving Time Series of River Water Extent from Global Inland Water Data Sets, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023).
https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-4607


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Abstract
The accurate monitoring of surface water storage as an essential component of the global water cycle requires a realistic representation of river networks and channel characteristics. Since such a representation has not been available for many rivers and is becoming less available even for many gauged rivers, crucial questions about the spatio-temporal dynamics of freshwater in river networks cannot be answered properly. The global coverage and fine temporal resolution of satellite imagery provide the opportunity to obtain time series of surface water extent at the global scale for almost all rivers. However, despite recent advances in satellite imaging sensors, water extraction algorithms, and big data processing capabilities, none of the available global water extent data sets can meet the necessary requirements in terms of accuracy and spatiotemporal resolutions. Due to the inherent complexity of monitoring the river surface extent, efforts have been limited to the development of global river extent data sets with a limited number of temporal layers usually obtained from long-term averaged satellite imagery. In this study, we propose a region-based image restoration algorithm to obtain the river surface extent from a pre-existing global inland water data set by incorporating temporal and spatial constraints between pixel labels. We employ our algorithm on the Monthly Water History maps of the Global Surface Water data set developed by The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and develop a global river extent data set. We validate the obtained river extent time series against the in situ discharge measurements.