Summary: SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) is a space mission led by NASA (USA) and CNES (France) with the participation of CSA (Canada) and UKSA (United Kingdom) scheduled for launch in late 2022 (https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/; https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/missions/future-missions/swot.html). This mission aims to increase our capacity to observe water by probing up to 90% of the world's surface and ocean waters. The SWOT mission will provide a better understanding of changes in water availability. Specifically, SWOT will estimate water elevation for all lakes 6 ha and larger, and for rivers 100 m and larger. The vertical accuracy will be 10 cm when averaged over 1 km2.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a technical introduction to SWOT, its main characteristics, the different products that will be available and its contributions to the measurement of surface water availability. The workshop is intended for researchers and students in water sciences, but also for professionals in water resource management.
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Speaker : Mélanie Trudel is a member of CentrEau and a professor in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke. She specializes in hydrological and hydraulic modeling, the impact of climate change, and remote sensing for water resource management. Within SWOT, she is a member of the SWOT Science Team and is the principal investigator of the SNORKS (SWOT and NORthern Lakes) project.
