HESS Hydrology and Earth System Sciences HESS Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 1607-7938 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/hess-13-813-2009 Editorial "Remote sensing in hydrological sciences" Wagner W. ¹ Verhoest N. E. C. ² Ludwig R. ³ Tedesco M. ⁴ 1 Christian Doppler Laboratory at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria 2 Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 3 Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany 4 City University of New York, USA 18 06 2009 13 6 813 817 Copyright: © 2009 W. Wagner et al. 2009 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/13/813/2009/hess-13-813-2009.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/13/813/2009/hess-13-813-2009.pdf

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