@article {doi:10.1029/2020GL087367,
	title = {Determining bathymetry of shallow and ephemeral desert lakes using satellite imagery and altimetry},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {n/a},
	number = {n/a},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {e2020GL087367},
	abstract = {Abstract Water volume estimates of shallow desert lakes are the basis for water balance calculations, important both for water resource management and paleohydrology/climatology. Water volumes are typically inferred from bathymetry mapping; however, being shallow, ephemeral and remote, bathymetric surveys are scarce in such lakes. We propose a new, remote-sensing based, method to derive the bathymetry of such lakes using the relation between water occurrence, during \textgreater30-yr of optical satellite data, and accurate elevation measurements from the new Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). We demonstrate our method at three locations where we map bathymetries with \~0.3 m error. This method complements other remotely sensed, bathymetry-mapping methods as it can be applied to: (a) complex lake systems with sub-basins, (b) remote lakes with no in-situ records, and (c) flooded lakes. The proposed method can be easily implemented in other shallow lakes as it builds on publically accessible global data sets.},
	keywords = {Desert hydrology, Ephemeral desert lakes, ICESat-2 altimetry, Lake bathymetry, Lake Eyre, remote sensing bathymetry},
	doi = {10.1029/2020GL087367},
	url = {https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GL087367},
	author = {Armon, M and Dente, E and Shmilovitz, Y and Mushkin, A and Cohen, T J and Morin, E. and Enzel, Y.}
}
