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Recent SWOT Application Achievements
- 04/09/2024 Kerala (India) Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) adopts the satellite-based reservoir tracking tool RAT 3.0 operationally for water management. This adoption makes CWRDM one step closer to operationally using SWOT L2 reservoir data for decision making during flood and drought events UW Mirror site for Kerala CWRDM RAT tool
- 04/01/2024 Supplementary funding provided by NASA Open Science to develop training and education materials for making RAT 3.0 ready for SWOT L2 reservoir data integration.
- 01/30/2024 Advancing surface water tracking in Bangladesh (enabled by SWOT)
- 05/23/2023 Restoring the Mesopotamian Rivers for Future Generations: A Practical Approach (enabled by SWOT)
- 01/14/2023 Quantifying Vast Water Resources of Bangladesh with SWOT
- 01/09/2023 First in Line to Track Blue Water From Space
- 11/14/2022 New Satellite Will See Water's Big Picture
- 11/02/2022 AWRA IMPACT Feature Article published in Nov 2022 issue on citizen science of lakes and the value of the SWOT mission - Tracking floodwater volume in the Developing World
- 10/30/2022 SWOT Application Commentary published in AGU Advances summarizing the years of pro-active engagement to build user-readiness of SWOT data Building User-Readiness for Satellite Earth Observing Missions: The Case of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
- 10/19/2022 Satellites and Citizen Scientists Help Track Water in Bangladesh
- 07/01/2022 During the June 2022 extreme flooding in Northeastern India and Bangladesh, operational tools based on SWOT-relevant citizen science (www.locss.org), stakeholder engagement and remote sensing of lake volume demonstrated the tremendous potential of SWOT for making societally critical decisions that are fundamentally impossible using information only on lake area (pre-SWOT) data Surface Water Volume Tracker using Satellites and Citizen Science
- 06/14/2022 The Third SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon is now published in Bulletin of American Meteorological Society . Engaging Potential Users of the Planned Surface Water And Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) Mission in the Year of Launch
- 04/28/2022 SWOT Applications Program delivers another successful SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon (the third one). 3rd SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon
- 03/14/2022 The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission gets featured for NASA Pi Day-2022. Click for SWOT Pi Day Feature
- 02/10/2022 The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission: The New Landsat for Water? Op-Ed, IEEE Earthzine, February, 2022 Click for SWOT Op-Ed in IEEE Earthzine
- 01/02/2022 Anticipated High Impact SWOT Applications: A Global Summary Of Accomplishments In The Year Of Launch, Presentation to SWOT Discharge Algorithm Working Group Click for Presentation
- 01/25/2022 SWOT Pixel Cloud Simulation over Mahanadi River prepared by IIT Bombay (credits: Akhilesh Nai and Indu Jayaluxmi) Click for Animation
- 01/22/2022 Op-Ed on Social Justice and Remote Sensing for Xingu Population (relevance to SWOT)- Download Op-Ed
- 01/07/2022 Congratulations to IITB for their EA project based publication journal of Environmental Modeling and Software titled "Sentinel-1 based Inland water dynamics Mapping System (SIMS)."
- 11/20/2021 IITB, a SWOT Early Adopter, publishes a SWOT CNES simulator based study over the Mahanadi river basin in India in the journal of Advances in Space Research. The work is expected to lay the foundation to further the operational use and assimilation of SWOT L2 data for river-reservoir management.
- 11/20/2021 IITB, a SWOT Early Adopter, in collaboration with CWRDM, another SWOT Early Adopter, publishes a paper in Frontiers of Water, showcasing the potential of SWOT for lake studies. The specific lake is under the SWOT 1-day orbit and is expected to be part of a broader SWOT cal/val effort for lakes during the SWOT 1-day phase.
- 11/08/2021 Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), a SWOT Early Adopter, has contributed high value Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler measurements for two Indus Rivers for potential use by SWOT Discharge Algorithm Working Group of SWOT Science Team. Earlier, PCRWR contributed to the set up of citizen-based monitoring of two lakes in Pakistan for SWOT Lake Citizen Science led by Dr Tamlin Pavelsky and Dr. Jean-Francois Cretaux.
- 11/08/2021 Texas Water Development Board (a SWOT Early Adopter) has co-developed with University of Washington an Experimental Multi-sensor Lake Area Estimation Tool for estimation of evaporative losses. This tool is expected to be the template for future operational ingestion of SWOT Level 2 lake area data after SWOT launch and will help TWDB make more robust decisions on water supply for all Texans. This tool and EA project will also help SWOT mission's cal/val of lake products as the SWOT 1-day orbit will overpass numerous Texas lakes and reservoirs during the first 3 months after launch.
- 11/07/2021 Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), a SWOT Early Adopter, has published a peer-reviewed paper in ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering based on SWOT Early Adopter project in Myanmar for flood preparedness. This also paper received the EDITOR'S CHOICE recognition for 2021.
- 10/26/2021 NASA SPoRT, and IIT-Bombay, two mature SWOT Early Adopters, have shared SWOT simulated data as examples over Alaska river (SPoRT) and Mahanadi river (IITB) to help USGS, a new SWOT Early Adopter, get its project off the ground.
- 10/24/2021 NASA SPoRT, a SWOT Early Adopter, has published two peer-reviewed publications in Water Resources Research based on SWOT Early Adopter project led by Dr. Nicholas Elmer. The first one (published in 2020) laid the foundation for the use of SWOT CNES simulator over Alaskan rivers for WRF-Hydro experiments. It also developed tutorials. The recent one (in 2021) demonstrated the robustness of parameter calibration for hydrodynamic-hydrologic models using multi-point water surface data (that will be available from SWOT) when compared to single-point water surface data (that is the current pre-SWOT norm today).
- 10/05/2021 Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), a SWOT Early Adopter, in collaboration with IIT Bombay, has installed automatic lake level sensor and is exploring expansion of the citizen science lake monitoring network of lakes in Western Ghats for SWOT Lake science (led by Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky with Dr. Jean Francois Cretaux).
- 09/24/2021 Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay - a SWOT Early Adopter, has created a Sentinel-1 based Inland water dynamics Mapping System (SIMS) as an open-source web
application tool advancing applications of SWOT mission. A peer-reviewed publication on SIMS tool with information on its open-source code access will be forthcoming.
- Two of the SWOT Virtual Hackathon helpers of 2020 and 2021 Hackathon have received recognition - Dr. Hisham Eldardiry (now at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) is featured by Arab News in an immersive story called "The Battle for the Nile." Dr. Shahryar Ahmad (now at NASA Goddard) is featured in a promising group of 48 early career scientists. Both credited their experience with SWOT Early Adopter program working as a volunteer hacker as a key motivation for choosing their current career path.
- 04/09/2024 Kerala (India) Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) adopts the satellite-based reservoir tracking tool RAT 3.0 operationally for water management. This adoption makes CWRDM one step closer to operationally using SWOT L2 reservoir data for decision making during flood and drought events UW Mirror site for Kerala CWRDM RAT tool
- 04/01/2024 Supplementary funding provided by NASA Open Science to develop training and education materials for making RAT 3.0 ready for SWOT L2 reservoir data integration.
- 01/30/2024 Advancing surface water tracking in Bangladesh (enabled by SWOT)
- 05/23/2023 Restoring the Mesopotamian Rivers for Future Generations: A Practical Approach (enabled by SWOT)
- 01/14/2023 Quantifying Vast Water Resources of Bangladesh with SWOT
- 01/09/2023 First in Line to Track Blue Water From Space
- 11/14/2022 New Satellite Will See Water's Big Picture
- 11/02/2022 AWRA IMPACT Feature Article published in Nov 2022 issue on citizen science of lakes and the value of the SWOT mission - Tracking floodwater volume in the Developing World
- 10/30/2022 SWOT Application Commentary published in AGU Advances summarizing the years of pro-active engagement to build user-readiness of SWOT data Building User-Readiness for Satellite Earth Observing Missions: The Case of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
- 10/19/2022 Satellites and Citizen Scientists Help Track Water in Bangladesh
- 07/01/2022 During the June 2022 extreme flooding in Northeastern India and Bangladesh, operational tools based on SWOT-relevant citizen science (www.locss.org), stakeholder engagement and remote sensing of lake volume demonstrated the tremendous potential of SWOT for making societally critical decisions that are fundamentally impossible using information only on lake area (pre-SWOT) data Surface Water Volume Tracker using Satellites and Citizen Science
- 06/14/2022 The Third SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon is now published in Bulletin of American Meteorological Society . Engaging Potential Users of the Planned Surface Water And Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) Mission in the Year of Launch
- 04/28/2022 SWOT Applications Program delivers another successful SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon (the third one). 3rd SWOT Early Adopter Virtual Hackathon
- 03/14/2022 The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission gets featured for NASA Pi Day-2022. Click for SWOT Pi Day Feature
- 02/10/2022 The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission: The New Landsat for Water? Op-Ed, IEEE Earthzine, February, 2022 Click for SWOT Op-Ed in IEEE Earthzine
- 01/02/2022 Anticipated High Impact SWOT Applications: A Global Summary Of Accomplishments In The Year Of Launch, Presentation to SWOT Discharge Algorithm Working Group Click for Presentation
- 01/25/2022 SWOT Pixel Cloud Simulation over Mahanadi River prepared by IIT Bombay (credits: Akhilesh Nai and Indu Jayaluxmi) Click for Animation
- 01/22/2022 Op-Ed on Social Justice and Remote Sensing for Xingu Population (relevance to SWOT)- Download Op-Ed
- 01/07/2022 Congratulations to IITB for their EA project based publication journal of Environmental Modeling and Software titled "Sentinel-1 based Inland water dynamics Mapping System (SIMS)."
- 11/20/2021 IITB, a SWOT Early Adopter, publishes a SWOT CNES simulator based study over the Mahanadi river basin in India in the journal of Advances in Space Research. The work is expected to lay the foundation to further the operational use and assimilation of SWOT L2 data for river-reservoir management.
- 11/20/2021 IITB, a SWOT Early Adopter, in collaboration with CWRDM, another SWOT Early Adopter, publishes a paper in Frontiers of Water, showcasing the potential of SWOT for lake studies. The specific lake is under the SWOT 1-day orbit and is expected to be part of a broader SWOT cal/val effort for lakes during the SWOT 1-day phase.
- 11/08/2021 Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), a SWOT Early Adopter, has contributed high value Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler measurements for two Indus Rivers for potential use by SWOT Discharge Algorithm Working Group of SWOT Science Team. Earlier, PCRWR contributed to the set up of citizen-based monitoring of two lakes in Pakistan for SWOT Lake Citizen Science led by Dr Tamlin Pavelsky and Dr. Jean-Francois Cretaux.
- 11/08/2021 Texas Water Development Board (a SWOT Early Adopter) has co-developed with University of Washington an Experimental Multi-sensor Lake Area Estimation Tool for estimation of evaporative losses. This tool is expected to be the template for future operational ingestion of SWOT Level 2 lake area data after SWOT launch and will help TWDB make more robust decisions on water supply for all Texans. This tool and EA project will also help SWOT mission's cal/val of lake products as the SWOT 1-day orbit will overpass numerous Texas lakes and reservoirs during the first 3 months after launch.
- 11/07/2021 Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), a SWOT Early Adopter, has published a peer-reviewed paper in ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering based on SWOT Early Adopter project in Myanmar for flood preparedness. This also paper received the EDITOR'S CHOICE recognition for 2021.
- 10/26/2021 NASA SPoRT, and IIT-Bombay, two mature SWOT Early Adopters, have shared SWOT simulated data as examples over Alaska river (SPoRT) and Mahanadi river (IITB) to help USGS, a new SWOT Early Adopter, get its project off the ground.
- 10/24/2021 NASA SPoRT, a SWOT Early Adopter, has published two peer-reviewed publications in Water Resources Research based on SWOT Early Adopter project led by Dr. Nicholas Elmer. The first one (published in 2020) laid the foundation for the use of SWOT CNES simulator over Alaskan rivers for WRF-Hydro experiments. It also developed tutorials. The recent one (in 2021) demonstrated the robustness of parameter calibration for hydrodynamic-hydrologic models using multi-point water surface data (that will be available from SWOT) when compared to single-point water surface data (that is the current pre-SWOT norm today).
- 10/05/2021 Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), a SWOT Early Adopter, in collaboration with IIT Bombay, has installed automatic lake level sensor and is exploring expansion of the citizen science lake monitoring network of lakes in Western Ghats for SWOT Lake science (led by Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky with Dr. Jean Francois Cretaux).
- 09/24/2021 Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay - a SWOT Early Adopter, has created a Sentinel-1 based Inland water dynamics Mapping System (SIMS) as an open-source web application tool advancing applications of SWOT mission. A peer-reviewed publication on SIMS tool with information on its open-source code access will be forthcoming.
- Two of the SWOT Virtual Hackathon helpers of 2020 and 2021 Hackathon have received recognition - Dr. Hisham Eldardiry (now at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) is featured by Arab News in an immersive story called "The Battle for the Nile." Dr. Shahryar Ahmad (now at NASA Goddard) is featured in a promising group of 48 early career scientists. Both credited their experience with SWOT Early Adopter program working as a volunteer hacker as a key motivation for choosing their current career path.