Pix2Streams: Dynamic Hydrology Maps from Satellite-LiDAR Fusion

Understand

Where are the Earth's streams flowing right now? Inland surface waters expand with floods and contract with droughts, so there is no one map of our streams.

• Current satellite approaches are limited to monthly observations that map only the widest streams.
• These are fed by smaller tributaries that make up much of the dendritic surface network but whose flow is unobserved.
• A complete map of our daily waters can give us an early warning for where droughts are born: the receding tips of the flowing network.