J. L. Bamber, Ice sheet altimeter processing scheme, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol.74, issue.4, pp.925-938, 1994.
DOI : 10.1080/01431168808954881

C. M. Birkett, The contribution of TOPEX/POSEIDON to the global monitoring of climatically sensitive lakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.79, issue.6, pp.179-204, 1995.
DOI : 10.1029/95JC02125

C. M. Birkett, Contribution of the TOPEX NASA Radar Altimeter to the global monitoring of large rivers and wetlands, Water Resources Research, vol.79, issue.6, pp.1223-1239, 1998.
DOI : 10.1029/98WR00124

C. M. Birkett, L. A. Mertes, T. Dunne, M. H. Costa, and M. J. Jasinski, Surface water dynamics in the Amazon Basin: Application of satellite radar altimetry, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.79, issue.6, pp.8059-8080, 2002.
DOI : 10.1029/2001JD000609

G. S. Brown, The average impulse response of a rough surface and its applications, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol.25, issue.1, pp.67-74, 1977.
DOI : 10.1109/TAP.1977.1141536

J. M. Dow, F. M. Martinez-fadrique, and R. Zandbergen, High precision altimetry from the Envisat mission, Advances in Space Research, vol.23, issue.4, pp.757-762, 1999.
DOI : 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00151-9

B. Gardini, G. Graf, and G. Ratier, The instruments on envisat, Acta Astronautica, vol.37, pp.301-311, 1995.
DOI : 10.1016/0094-5765(95)00050-A

G. S. Hayne, Radar altimeter mean return waveforms from near-normal-incidence ocean surface scattering, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol.28, issue.5, pp.687-692, 1980.
DOI : 10.1109/TAP.1980.1142398
URL : http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19800014175

C. J. Koblinsky, R. T. Clarke, A. C. Brenner, and H. Frey, Measurement of river level variations with satellite altimetry, Water Resources Research, vol.246, issue.6, pp.1839-1848, 1993.
DOI : 10.1029/93WR00542

S. Laxon, Sea ice altimeter processing scheme at the EODC, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol.24, issue.4, pp.915-924, 1994.
DOI : 10.1080/01431168708954807

B. Legrésy, C. Cnes, and . Ud96, Etude du retracking des surfaces des formes d'onde altimétriques audessus des calottes, rapport, p.95, 1995.

B. Legrésy and F. Rémy, Surface characteristics of the Antarctic ice sheet and altimetric obsedrvations, J. of Glacio, vol.43, issue.144, pp.197-206, 1997.

L. Traon, P. Y. Gaspar, P. Bouyssel, F. Makhmara, and H. , Data, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol.12, issue.1, pp.161-170, 1995.
DOI : 10.1175/1520-0426(1995)012<0161:UTDTED>2.0.CO;2
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01495057

C. Maheu, A. Cazenave, and C. R. Mechoso, Water level fluctuations in the Plata Basin (South America) from Topex/Poseidon Satellite Altimetry, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.21, issue.3, pp.1143-1146, 2003.
DOI : 10.1029/2002GL016033

V. Nuth, J. Pulliam, and C. Wilson, Migration of radar altimeter waveform data, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.246, issue.1, 2002.
DOI : 10.1029/2001GL014015

A. Cazenave, Temporal variations of river basin waters from Topex/Poseidon satellite altimetry ; application to the Amazon basin, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol.333, pp.1-11, 2001.

W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, and W. T. Vetterling, Numerical Recipes: the art of scientific computing, p.20, 1992.

C. Reigber, R. Schmidt, F. Flechtner, R. König, U. Meyer et al., An Earth gravity field model complete to degree and order 150 from GRACE: EIGEN-GRACE02S, Journal of Geodynamics, vol.39, issue.1, pp.1-10, 2005.
DOI : 10.1016/j.jog.2004.07.001

E. Rodriguez and B. Chapman, Extracting ocean surface information from altimeter returns: The deconvolution method, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.13, issue.2, pp.761-9778, 1989.
DOI : 10.1029/JC094iC07p09761

S. J. Sippel, S. K. Hamilton, J. M. Melack, and E. M. Novo, Passive microwave observations of inundation area and the area/stage relation in the Amazon River floodplain, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol.19, issue.16, pp.3055-3074, 1998.
DOI : 10.1080/014311698214181

T. Wehr and E. Attema, Geophysical validation of envisat data products, Advances in Space Research, vol.28, issue.1, pp.83-91, 2001.
DOI : 10.1016/S0273-1177(01)00297-6

D. J. Wingham, C. G. Rapley, and H. Griffiths, New techniques in satellite altimeter tracking systems, Proceedings of IGARSS'86 Symposium, pp.8-11, 1986.

C. Zelli, ENVISAT RA-2 advanced radar altimeter: Instrument design and pre-launch performance assessment review, Acta Astronautica, vol.44, issue.7-12, pp.323-333, 1999.
DOI : 10.1016/S0094-5765(99)00063-6

H. J. Zwally, B. Schutz, D. Hancock, and A. Brenner, ICESat/GLAS Standard Data Products in HDF and SCF Formats. Version 1.2, 2000.