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Sep 2026
SWOT Wide-Swath Altimetry for Inland-Water Remote Sensing: Applications, Challenges, and Prospects—A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Review
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission represents a major advance in satellite hydrology by extending conventional nadir altimetry to two-dimensional wide-swath observations of the inland-water surface elevation, extent, width, and slope. This review combines a bibliometric analysis of 556 publications i...
Zhuo-Lin Zhang, Yong-Hua Sun, Zhi-Xin Jiang et al.
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