Scientific objective of this PhD work is to improve water fluxes estimation on the continental surfaces, at interanual and interseasonal scale (from few years to decennial time period). More specifically, it studies contribution of remotely-sensed measurements to improve hydrology model. Notably, this work focuses on the incoming SWOT mission (Surface Water and Ocean Topography, launch scheduled for 2021) for the study of the continental water cycle at global scale, and using the land surface model ISBA-TRIP. In this PhD work, I explore the potential of satellite data to correct both input parameters of the river routing scheme TRIP and its state variables. To do so, a data assimilation platform has been set to assimilate SWOT virtual obser...