Launching Into Societal Benefits From the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
Abstract The 10th Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Applications Meeting, held one year after the satellite's launch, highlighted significant milestones in mission progress and showcased the innovative work of SWOT Early Adopters (EA) using mission data products. Over 100 participants from diverse sectors convened to discuss operational applications leveraging SWOT's unprecedented water surface measurements. The meeting emphasized applied science efforts to enhance hydrology and oceanographic models. This summary highlights the breadth of operational and private‐sector uses of SWOT data, emphasizing its potential to drive new innovations and deliver societal benefits, such as improved water resource management, flood prediction, and climate resilience.
Authors
- Vardis Tsontos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1723-0860)
- Pierre‐Yves Le Traon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5484-3439)
- Guy Schumann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-7198)
- Santiago Peña Luque (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7729-1198)
- Luciana Fenoglio-Marc (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8426)
- Matthew Bonnema (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9745-3425)
- J. Indu
- Chandana Gangodagamage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6511-1711)
- Louise Croneborg‐Jones
- Isabel Houghton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7480-2415)
- Paula Torre Zaffaroni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1007-843X)
- Margaret Srinivasan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6254-1668)
- Robert W. Dudley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0934-0568)
- Curtis W. Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5488-7274)
- P.J. van Oevelen
- A. Dib (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0113-2745)
- R. Edward Beighley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1139-6226)
- Jerry Wegiel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6300-6077)
- S. Desai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4928-0934)
- Cédric Hervé David (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0924-5907)
- Alexandre Abdalla Araújo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3139-9574)
- Nicolas Picot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5224-7660)
- Cassandra Nickles (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9930-1433)
- Alexandre de Amorim Teixeira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2020-6263)
- Bareerah Fatima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1215-8721)
- Babette C. Tchonang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6293-231X)
- Gregg Jacobs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8948-0618)
- Renato Prata de Moraes Frasson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-1730)
- Bradley Doorn
- Jinbo Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-5566)
- Stephanie Granger
- Charon Birkett
Institutions
- Northeastern University (US)
- Fidelity Investments (United States) (US)
- National Association of Social Workers (US)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IN)
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR)
- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (FR)
- Inova Fairfax Hospital (US)
- Stennis Space Center (US)
- University of North Carolina at Pembroke (US)
- Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PK)
- Mercator Ocean (France) (FR)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
- National Water Agency (BR)
- Stockholm International Water Institute (SE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Water Resources Research
- Published
- 2025-08-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2024wr038436
- Primary Topic
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- California Institute of Technology
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory