The work was part of the SABERES project financed by the BNPParibas Foundation as part of its “Climate & Biodiversity Initiative” program 2019. A.S.F. was supported by CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil) [grant number 141161/2017-5]. F.P., J.F.F., M.P.B. and F.A. received support from CNES (SWOT-ST project SWOT for SOUTH AMERICA, ID: 6018-4500066497). F.P. and M.P.B. also received support from CNES (SWOT-ST project SWOT Wetlands Hydrology Monitoring). F.P. is supported by the IRD Groupement De Recherche International (GDRI) SCaHyLab. J.M.M. received support from NASA IDS grant NNX17AK49G and the US National Science Foundation (Division of Environmental Biology, grant 1753856). E.P. acknowledges Nanyang Technological University (SUG-NAP EP3/19) and Ministry of Education of Singapore (AcRF Tier1 RT 06/19 and AcRF Tier2 RT 11/21). A.F.R. acknowledges the Research Foundation of São Paulo (FAPESP, grant #2019/24049-5). S.W. has been supported by the French AMANECER-MOPGA project funded by ANR and IRD (ref. ANR-18-MPGA-0008). M.C. received funding from NASA IDS grant NNX17AK49G. The SWAF dataset development was financed by the CATDS and the SWOT-AVAL programs by CNES.