Publications

Zhen Zhou, Xinqi Hu, et al. (2026),  A multi-river contactless river water level dataset using UAS radar altimetry, Preprint published in ESS Open Archive

Zhen Zhou, Xinqi Hu, Fabian Merk, et al. (2026), "River surface velocity estimation using UAS-borne Doppler radar and continuous wavelet transform", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in press

Zhen Zhou, Freja Christensen, David Gustafsson, et al. (2025), "High precision river discharge estimation using UAS-based hydrometry and SWOT-derived WSE", Preprint published in Authorea

Fabrício, Artur C., Joerger, Mathieu, Bauer-Gottwein, Peter, Olesen, Daniel H., "INS/GNSS/LiDAR Fusion for Accurate Positioning of UAVs in Complex River Environments," Proceedings of the 38th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2025), Baltimore, Maryland, September 2025, pp. 2011-2020. https://doi.org/10.33012/2025.20449

Xinqi Hu, Zhen Zhou, Farhad Bahmanpouri, et al. (2025): Contactless river discharge from Unoccupied Aerial Systems hydrometry: performance evaluation using a large and diverse set of river cross sections Preprint published in ESS open archive

Zhen Zhou, Laura Riis-Klinkvort, Emilie Ahrnkiel Jørgensen, et al. (2024): Measuring river surface velocity using UAS-borne Doppler radar. Water Resources Research, 60(11):e2024WR037375

Monica Coppo Frias, Alexander Rietz Vesterhauge,  Daniel Olesen, et al. (2025): Combining UAS Lidar, Sonar and Radar Altimetry for River Hydraulic Characterization. Drones9(1), 31

Fabian Merk, Timo Schaffhauser, Faizan Anwar, et al. (2024): The Significance of the Leaf-Area-Index on the Evapotranspiration Estimation in SWAT-T for Characteristic Land Cover Types of Western Africa. HESS, 28, 5511–5539

Zhen Zhou, Laura Riis-Klinkvort, Emilie Ahrnkiel Jørgensen, et al. (2025): UAS Hydrometry: Contactless River Water Level, Bathymetry, and Flow Velocity -The Rӧnne River Dataset. Scientific Data12, 294 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04611-x

Peter Bauer-Gottwein, Linda Christoffersen, Aske Musaeus, Monica Coppo Frías, and Karina Nielsen (2024): Hydraulics of Time-Variable Water Surface Slope in Rivers Observed by Satellite Altimetry. Remote Sensing, 16(21), 4010

Musaeus, A. F., Kittel, C. M. M., Luchner, J., Frias, M. C., & Bauer-Gottwein, P. (2024). Hydraulic River Models From ICESat-2 Elevation and Water Surface Slope. Water Resources Research, 60(6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036428