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The Congo River is Africa's most powerful river and the second most voluminous river in the world both in terms of a discharge of nearly 40,600 cubic meet of water per second and a basin of nearly 3,500,000 square kilometers.

We are interested in observing and modeling hydrologic and hydraulic processess throughout the Congo River Basin via remoet sensing measurements.


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Title: Fish traps in the swirling flood of Congo River at Stanley Falls, Congo Free State
(source: The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, Northwestern University Library)







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