The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) mission will provide free water surface elevations, slopes and river widths for rivers wider than 100 m, with a repetitivity of about 5 days and a revisit time of 21 days over France. These data will allow to validate hydrological models and improve them to simulate the water cycle. The final goal is to assimilate virtual water surface elevations measured by SWOT, by taking into account the error of these measurements. By using these products, the goal is to improve the values of the roughness coefficient in a hydrological model. This coefficient is important because river flows are very sensitive to this parameter. First, several developpements are set up in the regional hydrometeorological mod...