Altimetry enable to monitor soil moisture in semi-arid areas like Sahel

Mediterranean circulation needs a high-resolution. With a new processing, oceanic features are clearly seen.

The evolution of the Agulhas leakage, and thus of the water exchanges between Indian and Atlantic Ocean has been computed thanks to twenty years of altimetry data

In the Amazon plain, the groundwater level is about the same than the rivers' and lakes', which can be measured by altimetry

Combining Jason-2 Ganges-Brahmaputra levels with a forecasting model can lead to forecast water level

AltiKa data over the Kara Sea enable to distinguish there the effects of ice melting and also the presence of polylinias.

Seasat was the first proof-of-concept altimeter which gave real oceanographic data. The Loop Current, among others was observed this way in 1978.