@article {Armon2020a,
	title = {Determining Bathymetry of Shallow and Ephemeral Desert Lakes Using Satellite Imagery and Altimetry},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {47},
	number = {7},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {1{\textendash}9},
	abstract = {Water volume estimates of shallow desert lakes are the basis for water balance calculations, important both for water resource management and paleohydrology/climatology. Water volumes are typically inferred from bathymetry mapping; however, being shallow, ephemeral, and remote, bathymetric surveys are scarce in such lakes. We propose a new, remote-sensing-based, method to derive the bathymetry of such lakes using the relation between water occurrence, during >30~year of optical satellite data, and accurate elevation measurements from the new Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). We demonstrate our method at three locations where we map bathymetries with $\sim$0.3~m error. This method complements other remotely sensed, bathymetry-mapping methods as it can be applied to: (a) complex lake systems with subbasins, (b) remote lakes with no in-situ records, and (c) flooded lakes. The proposed method can be easily implemented in other shallow lakes as it builds on publically accessible global data sets.},
	keywords = {Desert hydrology, Ephemeral desert lakes, ICESat-2 altimetry, Lake bathymetry, Lake Eyre, remote sensing bathymetry},
	issn = {19448007},
	doi = {10.1029/2020GL087367},
	author = {Armon, M. and Dente, E. and Shmilovitz, Y. and Mushkin, A. and Cohen, T. J. and Morin, E. and Enzel, Y.}
}
