Recent Progress on Hydrogeodesy in China

Abstract

Modern geodetic technologies, including high-precision ground-based gravity measurements, satellite gravimetry, satellite altimetry, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar(InSAR), offer a wealth of observations for monitoring global hydrological processes with exceptional accuracy and spatio-temporal resolutions. Mass redistribution and Earth’s surface deformation over land related to global and regional water cycling can be inferred from modern gravimetry, altimetry, GNSS, and InSAR techniques. Hydrogeodesy becomes an emerging field of geodesy aiming to analyze the changes of water in the Earth system. The paper introduces the China’s advances in hydrogeodesy in recent years. It brings together multiple geodetic teams’ work from China, showcasing the application of modern geodetic technologies in the field of hydrology, including research on terrestrial water storage, groundwater storage, glaciers/ice sheets, and reservoir water storage.

Keywords

• |geodetic measurement|hydrogeodesy|hydrology|satellite gravity|gnss|altimetry