The use of satellite data for monitoring rivers in the Amu Darya basin

Abstract

The paper explores the organization of satellite monitoring of water bodies in Central Asia on the example of the Amu Darya river in a specialized satellite monitoring system EcoSatMS (http://suvo.geosmis.ru). The potential and prospects of using the new technology of virtual gauging stations to control the state of water bodies, as well as restoring the values of daily runoff at a point remote from the ground station for some distance are highlighted. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the implementation of the virtual gauging stations technique in flow of automated calculations allows to take the research as a basis for further development of individual tools for analyzing satellite observation time series and the EcoSatMS in general.