This PhD. aims at assessing the ability of emerging fluvial remote sensing techniques (such as terrestrial and topo-bathymetric LiDAR, hyperspectral imaging, and thermal infrared imaging) to characterize and monitor fluvial corridors. The study site is the lower basin of the Ain River which is affected by a range of issues related to channel incision, and is the location of a gravel augmentation project. First, we use hyperspectral imaging to predict channel bathymetry for a reference discharge and depths up to 2.5 meters along a river reach of 20 km. This allows us to confirm the ability of hyperspectral optical models to be extrapolated to a long river reach, and to retrieve with a single campaign bathymetric data for multiple discharge c...