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    Lubczynski, M.W.; Leblanc, M.; Batelaan, O.

    Journal of hydrology, April 2024, 2024-04-00, 2024-04, Volume: 633
    Journal Article

    •Integrated Hydrological Models (IHMs) are trustworthy but data-demanding.•Remote sensing (RS) and hydrogeophysics open exciting prospects for IHMs.•Combining RS and in-situ data for bias correction yields optimal climate forcings.•RS provides IHM input of surface/soil while hydrogeophysics, also of subsurface.•Evapotranspiration, soil moisture and stages are most used to constrain IHMs. Integrated Hydrological Models (IHMs) dynamically couple surface and groundwater processes across the unsaturated zone domain. IHMs are data intensive and computationally demanding but can provide physically realistic output, particularly if sufficient input data of high quality is available. In-situ observations often have a small footprint and are time and cost-demanding. Satellite remote sensing observations, with their long time series archives and spatially semi-continuous gridded format, as well as hydrogeophysical observations with their flexible, ‘on-demand’ high-resolution data coverage, perfectly complement in-situ observations. We review the contribution of various satellite remote sensing products for IHM: (1) climate forcings, (2) parameters, (3) boundary conditions and (4) observations for constraining model calibration and data assimilation. Our review of hydrogeophysics focuses on the four mentioned IHM contributions, but we analyze them per data acquisition platform, i.e., surface, drone-borne and airborne hydrogeophysics. Finally, the review includes a discussion on the optimal use of satellite remote sensing and hydrogeophysical data in IHMs, as well as a vision for further improvements of data-driven, integrated hydrological modelling.