DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-3879-2017
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85019592216
论文题名: The future of Earth observation in hydrology
作者: McCabe M ; F ; , Rodell M ; , Alsdorf D ; E ; , Miralles D ; G ; , Uijlenhoet R ; , Wagner W ; , Lucieer A ; , Houborg R ; , Verhoest N ; E ; C ; , Franz T ; E ; , Shi J ; , Gao H ; , Wood E ; F
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2017
卷: 21, 期: 7 起始页码: 3879
结束页码: 3914
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Balloons
; Digital storage
; Floods
; Geodetic satellites
; Mobile telecommunication systems
; Observatories
; Orbits
; Satellites
; Smartphones
; Space platforms
; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
; Analytical approach
; Environmental conditions
; High definition video
; High-altitude balloons
; Real-time collection
; Spatio-temporal constraints
; Structure from motion
; Tools and techniques
; Earth (planet)
; environmental conditions
; flood
; GRACE
; hydrological modeling
; hydrology
; Internet
; Landsat
; mobile communication
; mobile phone
; precipitation (climatology)
; sensor
; unmanned vehicle
英文摘要: In just the past 5 years, the field of Earth observation has progressed beyond the offerings of conventional space-agency-based platforms to include a plethora of sensing opportunities afforded by CubeSats, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and smartphone technologies that are being embraced by both for-profit companies and individual researchers. Over the previous decades, space agency efforts have brought forth well-known and immensely useful satellites such as the Landsat series and the Gravity Research and Climate Experiment (GRACE) system, with costs typically of the order of 1 billion dollars per satellite and with concept-to-launch timelines of the order of 2 decades (for new missions). More recently, the proliferation of smartphones has helped to miniaturize sensors and energy requirements, facilitating advances in the use of CubeSats that can be launched by the dozens, while providing ultra-high (3- 5 m) resolution sensing of the Earth on a daily basis. Startup companies that did not exist a decade ago now operate more satellites in orbit than any space agency, and at costs that are a mere fraction of traditional satellite missions. With these advances come new space-borne measurements, such as real-time high-definition video for tracking air pollution, storm-cell development, flood propagation, precipitation monitoring, or even for constructing digital surfaces using structure-from-motion techniques. Closer to the surface, measurements from small unmanned drones and tethered balloons have mapped snow depths, floods, and estimated evaporation at sub-metre resolutions, pushing back on spatio-temporal constraints and delivering new process insights. At ground level, precipitation has been measured using signal attenuation between antennae mounted on cell phone towers, while the proliferation of mobile devices has enabled citizen scientists to catalogue photos of environmental conditions, estimate daily average temperatures from battery state, and sense other hydrologically important variables such as channel depths using commercially available wireless devices. Global internet access is being pursued via highaltitude balloons, solar planes, and hundreds of planned satellite launches, providing a means to exploit the "internet of things" as an entirely new measurement domain. Such global access will enable real-time collection of data from billions of smartphones or from remote research platforms. This future will produce petabytes of data that can only be accessed via cloud storage and will require new analytical approaches to interpret. The extent to which today's hydrologic models can usefully ingest such massive data volumes is unclear. Nor is it clear whether this deluge of data will be usefully exploited, either because the measurements are superfluous, inconsistent, not accurate enough, or simply because we lack the capacity to process and analyse them. What is apparent is that the tools and techniques afforded by this array of novel and game-changing sensing platforms present our community with a unique opportunity to develop new insights that advance fundamental aspects of the hydrological sciences. To accomplish this will require more than just an application of the technology: in some cases, it will demand a radical rethink on how we utilize and exploit these new observing systems. © Author(s) 2017. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/79312
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作者单位: Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; Hydrological Science Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Greenbelt, MD, United States; Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States; Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria; Center for Water Resource Systems, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria; School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia; School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas AandM University, College Station, TX, United States; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Recommended Citation:
McCabe M,F,, Rodell M,et al. The future of Earth observation in hydrology[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2017-01-01,21(7)