Fiachra O'Loughlin

TL;DR: In this article, a high-accuracy global digital elevation model (DEM) was proposed by eliminating major error components from existing DEMs, such as absolute bias, stripe noise, speckle noise, and tree height bias.

TL;DR: The Global Width Database for Large Rivers (GWD-LR) as discussed by the authors was developed by applying the algorithm to the SRTM Water Body Database and the HydroSHEDS flow direction map.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed the first global ‘Bare Earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) based on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) for all landmasses between 60N and 54S.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the published results on the Congo Basin hydrology and summarize the historic and ongoing research and suggest seven hypotheses that focus on the source of the Cuvette waters and how these leave the wetland, on river discharge generated by historic rainfall, on the connection between climate change and the rainfall-runoff generated by the migrating tropical rainbelt, on deforestation and hydroelectric power generation, and on the amount of carbon emitted from Congo waters.

TL;DR: In this article, a 30 m resolution water mask was created for the middle reach of the Congo River, from which effective river widths and the number of channels and islands were determined.