Floodplain hydrology in an Amazon floodplain lake (Lago Grande de Curuai) (2008)
Bonnet, Marie-Paule, Barroux, Gwénaël, Martinez, Jean-Michel, Seyler, Frédérique, Moreira Turcq, Patricia, Cochonneau, Gérard, ...
The floodplains of the Amazon basin influence the hydrology and fluxes of suspended solids and solutes on multiple scales. Our study focused on the floodplain of Lago Grande de Curuai (Obidos,...
Floodplain hydrology in an Amazon floodplain lake (Lago Grande de Curuai) (2008)
Bonnet, Marie-Paule, Barroux, Gwénaël, Martinez, Jean-Michel, Seyler, Frédérique, Moreira Turcq, Patricia, Cochonneau, Gérard, ...
The floodplains of the Amazon basin influence the hydrology and fluxes of suspended solids and solutes on multiple scales. Our study focused on the floodplain of Lago Grande de Curuai (Obidos,...
Bailly, J.S., Lagacherie, P., Millier, C., Puech, C., Kosuth, P.
Linear features of agrarian landscapes are the anthropogenic elements such as hedgerows, ditches, and bench terraces that strongly impact agrarian areas' environmental behaviors, especially the...
Durrieu, S., Tormos, T., Kosuth, P., Golden, C.
Land cover map are produced from remote sensing images using per-pixel or, more recently, object-based classifications. Various trainable classifiers and feature space optimization methods can be...
Protocole V1. Extraction des corridors rivulaires des plans d'eau par télédétection (2008)
Alleaume, S., Buitrago-Acevedo, M.F., Argillier, C., Tormos, T., Kosuth, P.
/ L'apport de la télédétection a été envisagé pour répondre aux besoins de caractériser l'hydromorphologie des plans d'eau et les pressions qui s'y exercent. Par conséquent, nous présentons...
Floodplain hydrology in an Amazon floodplain lake (Lago Grande de Curuaí) (2008)
Bonnet, M.P., Barroux, G., Martinez, J.M., Seyler, F., Moreira-Turcq, P., Cochonneau, G., ...
The floodplains of the Amazon basin influence the hydrology and fluxes of suspended solids and solutes on multiple scales. Our study focused on the floodplain of Lago Grande de Curuaı´...
Hydrologie et télédétection : altimétrie, géodésie et gravimétrie appliquées à l'Hydrologie (2007)
During the past twenty years, earth observation from satellites has brought an increasing contribution to the monitoring and quantification of water resources, their dynamics and the hydrology of...
Bourgoin, L.M., Bonnet, M.P., Martinez, J.M., Kosuth, P., Cochonneau, G., Moreira Turcq, P., ...
The fluvial transport and storage of sediments within channelfloodplain systems can act as important sinks of sediments. In this study, we document the role of an Amazonian floodplain (Curuaí) for...
The Changing Earth : new scientific challenges for ESA's living planet programme (2006)
Simon, P.C., Hollingsworth, A., Carli, B., Källen, E., Rott, H., Partington, K., ...
Kosuth, P., Blitzkow, D., Cochonneau, G.
Satellite radar altimetry (Topex/Poseidon T/P) was used to establish a consistent altimetric reference network over the Amazon basin. A methodology was developed to quantify maximum annual water...
Pinheiro, A., Cernesson, A., Kosuth, P.
In the process of management of water resources in Europe as in Brasil, managers need to support their decisions and diagnose the environmental risks related to nonpoint pollution due to agricultural...
Pinheiro, A., Cernesson, F., Tournoud, M.G., Kosuth, P.
Tools for surface water quality management need different data basis in regards to scales of time and space, for their calibration and/or validation. Hydrological data are usually available at short...
Bailly, J.S., Lagacherie, P., Millier, C., Puech, C., Kosuth, P.
Artificial drainage networks such as ditches are landscape features that control most of hydrological transfers (water, nutrients, sediments) in cultivated areas. When studying large catchments in...
Bercher, N., Kosuth, P., Bruniquel, J.
The potential contribution of satellite radar altimetry to the monitoring of inland water levels (inner seas, lakes, floodplains and large rivers) has been demonstrated by numerous works during the...
Bercher, N., Kosuth, P., Bruniquel, J.
During the past 15 years, Satellite Radar Altimetry (SRA) have shown its potential contribution for monitoring river water levels. But nowadays, it is still not operational because the quality of SRA...
Role of spatial aggregation over runoff calculations on southeast France catchments (2006)
Eid, N.J., Cernesson, F., Folton, N., Kosuth, P.
The paper investigates the catchment area extension calculations as a function of the adopted spatial resolution and the effect of these spatial resolutions on the runoff calculations, for a number...
Reduction of equifinality in flood modelling by integration of radar imagery (2006)
Hostache, R., Puech, C., Kosuth, P.
This paper presents an example of a two-steps equifinality reduction approach during a calibration process of a hydrodynamic 1D model, using satellite radar images as ancillary data. The study area...
Tormos, T., Kosuth, P., Durrieu, S., Wasson, J.G., Pella, H., Villeneuve, B., ...
The European Water Framework Directive aims at implementing strategies to restore the ecological status of water bodies. This ecological status, that can be characterized by physicochemical...
Use of Multi-Platform-sensing for characterisation of land use in river corridors (2006)
Tormos, T., Kosuth, P., Durrieu, S., Wasson, J.G., Pella, H., Villeneuve, B., ...
Remote sensing is a powerful tool for homogeneous mapping of land use along river corridors. Considering the size of these systems and the diversity of land cover, data with high to very high space...
Kosuth, P., Blitzkow, D., Cochonneau, G.
Three levelling techniques were compared for the levelling of hydrometric stations along Amazonian rivers : spirit levelling, bi-frequency GPS positioning and satellite radar altimetry...
Fifteen years of progress in radar altimetry for hydrology (2006)
Benveniste, J., Berry, P.A., Cazenave, A., Kosuth, P.
Fifteen years after the launch of ERS-1 and TOPEX/POSEIDON, the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the French Space Agency, CNES, is organising an exceptional Symposium on "15 Years of...
Satellite monitoring of inundation dynamics at global scale over a decade (2006)
Papa, F., Prigent, C., Aires, F., Rossow, W.B., Kosuth, P.
Although they only cover ~6% of the Earth's ice-free land surfaces (~8.6 millions km2), natural wetlands and rice paddies play a key role in climate and hydrological processes. Firstly, they...
The changing earth : new scientific challenges for ESA's living planet programme (2006)
Grassl, H., Bougeault, P., England, P., Friis Kristensen, E., Johannessen, J.A., Kosuth, P.
The Changing Earth : New Scientific Challenges for ESA's Living Planet Programme focuses on the most fundamental challenge facing humanity at the beginning of the 21st century that being global...
Tormos, T., Kosuth, P., Durrieu, S., Wasson, J.G.
/ La Directive Cadre Eau européenne oblige les états membres d'atteindre d'ici 2015 le bon état écologique des cours d'eau européens. Cette directive n'implique pas simplement une constatation...
Eid, N.J., Puech, C., Kosuth, P., Cernesson, F.
Water resources management can use information gathered from very high spatial resolution imagery to feed models unexpected to be employed with this kind of data source. By example, water withdrawals...
Role of spatial aggregation over runoff calculations on southeast French catchments (2005)
Eid, N.J., Cernesson, F., Folton, N., Kosuth, P.
Grids are a very suitable way to allow hydrologic modelling. The efficiency of a grid based model should be defined in respect to a spatial resolution, i.e. the pixel size that the model can handle...
Cernesson, F., Eid, N.J., Tournoud, M.G., Payraudeau, S., Kosuth, P.
Digital Elevation Models are commonly used to hydrological features extraction to feed distributed models. One of the first steps for this data acquisition is the choice of the threshold area needed...
Burte, J., Coudrain, A., Frischkorn, H., Chaffaut, I., Kosuth, P.
The exploitation of an alluvial aquifer (2 ´ 106 m3) has been developed since 1998 in the Valley of Forquilha (Quixeramobim, State of Ceará). For this purpose, 165 wells were drilled along the 23...
Space Techniques Used to Measure Change in Terrestrial Waters (2004)
Cazenave, A., Milly, P. C. D., Douville, H., Benveniste, J., Kosuth, P., Lettenmaier, D.
Terrestrial waters-including snowpack, glaciers, water in aquifers and other geological formations, water in the plant root zone, rivers, lakes, man-made reservoirs, wetlands, and inundated...
Hydrodynamic 1D model of the Amazon river applied to the sediment transport (2003)
Baume, J.P., Kosuth, P., Le Guennec, B., Netto, A., Nicod, J.
/ Présentation d'un poster au congrès 2003 de la 'European Geophysical Society'.
Kosuth, P., Hurand, P., Trouvat, J.L., Aguilar Martin, J.
Natural rivers can be used for irrigation water transportation and distribution, respecting a minimal flow constraint downstream the river for environmental purposes. These "Dam-river" systems are...
Augier, P., Kosuth, P., Deumier, J.M., Lacroix, B., Bonnemort, C.
Experimental results, obtained in this study, confirm that wind effects on the water application by sprinklers and guns are significant: the wind constitutes one of the main cause of water...
Secteurs de références et connaissance du milieu physique : sols, climat, ressources en eau (1996)
Favrot, J.C., Isberie, C., Kosuth, P., Zimmer, D.
A multidisciplinary approach involving a serie of preliminary studies, known as the Sector of References method, has been used in France over the past two decades to obtain the regional agronomic and...
The free-water pond under a trickle source : a field test of existing theories (1996)
Revol, P., Clothier, B.E., Kosuth, P., Vachaud, G.
The size of the free-water ponds under drippers is an important field characteristic trickle irrigation. Here we review four existing analytical theories that purport to describe 3-D infiltration. We...
Revol, P., Kosuth, P., Ruelle, P., Thony, J.L., Vachaud, G., Vauclin, M.
Three methods, disk infiltrometer, GPI (Guelph Pressure Infiltrometer) and drip infiltrometer, have been recently proposed that purport to measure the soil saturated hydraulic conductivity, Ks, and...
Garin, P., Habib, Z., Kosuth, P., Kuper, M., Riaz, K., Skogerboe, G., ...
An integrated approach to evaluate the economic and environmental impact of changes in irrigation management has been developed as part of a joint research program of the International Irrigation...
Sawadogo, S., Malaterre, P.O., Kosuth, P.
This paper presents an application of optimal control theory to the automatic control of a single reach of an irrigation canal. The mode used to design the controller is derived from Saint-Venant's...
Irrigation des vergers : le goutte à goutte en question (1995)
Revol, P., Belluau, E., Kosuth, P., Ledore, F.
Social experiments were conducted to analyse the peach growers difficulties with drip irrigation in the South of France. The following aspects are examined : materials, wetting pattern roots, and...
A PID neural controller for unstable delayed linear systems (1994)
Toudeft, A., Kosuth, P., Gallinari, P.
The paper deals with the control problem of unstable delayed linear systems submitted to perturbations corresponding to water-off-takes on irrigation canals. Two controllers incorporated into a Smith...
Effet du vent sur les hétérogénéités d'arrosage et de rendement en irrigation par aspersion (1994)
Kosuth, P., Augier, P., Deumier, J.M., Lacroix, B.
It was demonstrated that wind has a significant effect on the uniformity of water distribution when sprinklers were used. When there is wind, the area watered by a sprinkler tends to be reduced, part...
This study is devoted to control algorithms and architectures for complex open channel hydraulic systems. These systems consist in lumped single input-single output (SISO) delayed sub-systems, or...
The work presented here is a contribution to the effort of synthesis between the various indicators of a crop hydric state: at first, the problem is to understand and model the joint, daily dynamics...
Quand l'irrigation a le vent en poupe (1993)
Kosuth, P., Augier, P., Lacroix, B., Deumier, J.M.
This article raises the problems of sprinkler irrigation in windy areas. But it seems also that the impact of wind on yield in sprinkler irrigation is not the only cause. A first observation should...
Water distribution through rivers when it is possible is without any doubt the most economical way. For a number of years, thanks to the development of information systems and control in real time,...
Maîtriser le développement des cultures en mesurant leur état hydrique (1992)
The measurement of the hydric state of the soil of the plant allows a rationale and economical management of water irrigation. Two examples illustrate this article, soya and sorghum, cultivated on...
Itier, B., Flura, D., Belabbes, K., Kosuth, P., Rana, G., Figueiredo, L.
The measurement of water consumption in the field is normally restricted to research purposes, although the development of practical field criteria for timing water application is required to improve...