NASA’s SWOT Satellite Is Redefining our Understanding of Rivers

NASA’s SWOT Satellite Is Redefining our Understanding of Rivers

NASA’s SWOT Satellite Is Redefining our Understanding of Rivers Water doesn’t just run downhill. Over time, it redraws maps, undercuts bridges, shifts floodplains, silts up reservoirs, and quietly changes the ground rules for how infrastructure should be planned, built, and maintained. For decades, engineers and geoscientists have known this in principle, but measuring it at scale has always been the hard part. Rivers can be remote, seasonal, da…