Water

Summary: Notes on water resources, hydrology, and related monitoring tools. Last updated: 2026-08-20

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2025

• Unprecedented Continental Drying and Shrinking Freshwater Availability: Science Advances paper on unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions to sea level rise. Related: Climate. Keywords: water, freshwater, sea level rise, climate change, hydrology

2024

• NASA Water Quality Tool: NASA EarthData news on a new tool for rapid water quality evaluation using satellite data. Related: Remote_Sensing, Tools, Data. Keywords: water quality, NASA, satellite, tool, remote sensing

• Chlorophyll-a Modeling from MODIS for Lake Victoria: Data-driven water quality modeling using MODIS satellite imagery to estimate chlorophyll-a for trophic status monitoring of Lake Victoria. Related: Remote_Sensing, Machine_Learning, Data. Keywords: water quality, chlorophyll, MODIS, lake, remote sensing, machine learning

• SWOT River Discharge Dataset: NASA JPL PODAAC SWOT satellite Level-4 river discharge dataset. Related: Remote_Sensing. Keywords: water, river discharge, SWOT, NASA, satellite, hydrology

Earlier

• DeepWater: Deep learning model for global surface water mapping from satellite imagery. Related: Deep_Learning, Remote_Sensing. Keywords: water, deep learning, surface water, satellite, global

• ESA Water Competition: ESA round-robin inter-comparison of surface water detection algorithms. Related: Remote_Sensing. Keywords: water, ESA, surface water detection, algorithm comparison

• waterdetect - Surface Water Sentinel-1/2: Multitemporal surface water detection accuracy evaluation using Sentinel-1/2. Related: Remote_Sensing. Keywords: water, surface water, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, detection, multitemporal

• Comparison of Parametric and Non-Parametric Methods for Groundwater Trend: IWA paper comparing parametric and non-parametric trend methods in groundwater level analysis. Related: Data. Keywords: water, groundwater, trend analysis, statistics, hydrology

• Analyzing Rainfall Trends in India with ML: Nature Scientific Reports paper on rainfall trend analysis in India using non-parametrical and machine learning methods. Related: Climate, Machine_Learning. Keywords: water, rainfall, trend analysis, India, machine learning

• High Resolution SMAP Downscaling: MDPI paper on downscaling SMAP soil moisture data to high resolution. Related: Agriculture, Remote_Sensing, Data. Keywords: water, soil moisture, SMAP, downscaling, remote sensing

• India Hydro-Meterological Zones: GeoJSON/shapefile of India's hydro-meteorological zones. Related: Data. Keywords: water, India, hydrology, zones, GIS, data

• Global Irrigation Areas (2001-2015): Global irrigation area dataset in GEE community datasets. Related: GEE, Agriculture. Keywords: water, irrigation, global, GEE, agriculture

• Surface Water Trends India: Analysis of surface water trends across India using satellite data. Related: Remote_Sensing, Data. Keywords: water, India, surface water, trends, remote sensing

• InVEST Modeling: Stanford Natural Capital Project's InVEST tool for ecosystem services modeling including water yield and quality. Related: Agriculture. Keywords: water, ecosystem services, modeling, InVEST, Stanford

• Groundwater Recharge Modeling with GEE: Tutorial on estimating groundwater recharge using Google Earth Engine. Related: GEE. Keywords: water, groundwater, recharge, GEE, modeling

• Rainfall-Runoff Model in GEE: Paper on cloud-based SCS Curve Number rainfall-runoff model using GEE. Code Related: GEE. Keywords: water, rainfall-runoff, GEE, SCS, curve number, hydrology

• River Channel Change Detection with GEE: Review paper on GEE applications in fluvial geomorphology for detecting river channel change. Related: GEE, Remote_Sensing. Keywords: water, river, geomorphology, GEE, change detection

• Flood Water Depth GEE: Natural Hazards paper with GEE code for estimating flood water depth from SAR imagery. Related: GEE, Remote_Sensing. Keywords: water, flood, depth estimation, GEE, SAR

• Water Quality Monitoring Kutch Region: Omdena blog on applying satellite imagery for water quality monitoring in the Kutch region. Related: Remote_Sensing. Keywords: water quality, satellite, Kutch, India, remote sensing

• Reservoir Storage Volumes in GEE: AGU paper on estimating reservoir storage volumes in GEE using surface area-volume curves. Related: GEE. Keywords: water, reservoir, storage, GEE, surface area, hydrology

• Groundwater Levels Dataset: UN-IGRAC global groundwater levels dataset, published with a Nature article. Related: Data. Keywords: water, groundwater, dataset, global, UN-IGRAC