Remote Sensing Of The Terrestrial Water Cycle

Author : Venkataraman Lakshmi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118872031

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Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle by Venkataraman Lakshmi Pdf

Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle is an outcome of the AGU Chapman Conference held in February 2012. This is a comprehensive volume that examines the use of available remote sensing satellite data as well as data from future missions that can be used to expand our knowledge in quantifying the spatial and temporal variations in the terrestrial water cycle. Volume highlights include: - An in-depth discussion of the global water cycle - Approaches to various problems in climate, weather, hydrology, and agriculture - Applications of satellite remote sensing in measuring precipitation, surface water, snow, soil moisture, groundwater, modeling, and data assimilation - A description of the use of satellite data for accurately estimating and monitoring the components of the hydrological cycle - Discussion of the measurement of multiple geophysical variables and properties over different landscapes on a temporal and a regional scale Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle is a valuable resource for students and research professionals in the hydrology, ecology, atmospheric sciences, geography, and geological sciences communities.

Author : Qiuhong Tang,Youcun Qi,Zhihui Wang,Yun Pan
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039288076

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Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Hydrologic Cycle by Qiuhong Tang,Youcun Qi,Zhihui Wang,Yun Pan Pdf

This book provides a practical introduction to remote sensing applications for detecting changes in the terrestrial water cycle and understanding the causes and consequences of these changes. Covering a wide range of innovative remote sensing approaches for hydrological study, this book contributes significantly to the knowledge base of hydrology in the Anthropocene, i.e., global change hydrology. It is an excellent reference for students and professionals in the fields of hydrology, climate change, and geography.

Author : Deepak R. Mishra,Martha C. Anderson,Rita Linke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788022378

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Encyclopaedia of Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle by Deepak R. Mishra,Martha C. Anderson,Rita Linke Pdf

Author : Christopher Ndehedehe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030995775

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Satellite Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Hydrology by Christopher Ndehedehe Pdf

This book highlights several opportunities that exist in satellite remote sensing of large-scale terrestrial hydrology. It lays bare the novel concept of remote sensing hydrology and demonstrates key applications of advance satellite technology and new methods in advancing our fundamental understanding of environmental systems. This includes, using state-of-the-art satellite hydrology missions like the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and other multi-mission satellite systems as important tools that underpin water resources planning and accounting. This book discusses and demonstrates how the efficacy, simplicity, and sophistication in novel computing platforms for big earth observation data can help facilitate environmental monitoring and improve contemporary understanding of climate change impacts on freshwater resources. It also provides opportunities for practitioners and relevant government agencies to leverage satellite-based information in a transdisciplinary context to address several environmental issues affecting society. This book provides a general framework and highlights methods to help improve our understanding of hydrological processes and impact analysis from extreme events (e.g., droughts, floods) and climate change.

Author : Qiuhong Tang,Youcun Qi,Zhihui Wang,Yun Pan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039288083

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Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Hydrologic Cycle by Qiuhong Tang,Youcun Qi,Zhihui Wang,Yun Pan Pdf

This book provides a practical introduction to remote sensing applications for detecting changes in the terrestrial water cycle and understanding the causes and consequences of these changes. Covering a wide range of innovative remote sensing approaches for hydrological study, this book contributes significantly to the knowledge base of hydrology in the Anthropocene, i.e., global change hydrology. It is an excellent reference for students and professionals in the fields of hydrology, climate change, and geography.

Author : A. Cazenave,N. Champollion,J. Benveniste,J. Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319324494

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Remote Sensing and Water Resources by A. Cazenave,N. Champollion,J. Benveniste,J. Chen Pdf

This book is a collection of overview articles showing how space-based observations, combined with hydrological modeling, have considerably improved our knowledge of the continental water cycle and its sensitivity to climate change. Two main issues are highlighted: (1) the use in combination of space observations for monitoring water storage changes in river basins worldwide, and (2) the use of space data in hydrological modeling either through data assimilation or as external constraints. The water resources aspect is also addressed, as well as the impacts of direct anthropogenic forcing on land hydrology (e.g. ground water depletion, dam building on rivers, crop irrigation, changes in land use and agricultural practices, etc.). Remote sensing observations offer important new information on this important topic as well, which is highly useful for achieving water management objectives.Over the past 15 years, remote sensing techniques have increasingly demonstrated their capability to monitor components of the water balance of large river basins on time scales ranging from months to decades: satellite altimetry routinely monitors water level changes in large rivers, lakes and floodplains. When combined with satellite imagery, this technique can also measure surface water volume variations. Passive and active microwave sensors offer important information on soil moisture (e.g. the SMOS mission) as well as wetlands and snowpack. The GRACE space gravity mission offers, for the first time, the possibility of directly measuring spatio-temporal variations in the total vertically integrated terrestrial water storage. When combined with other space observations (e.g. from satellite altimetry and SMOS) or model estimates of surface waters and soil moisture, space gravity data can effectively measure groundwater storage variations. New satellite missions, planned for the coming years, will complement the constellation of satellites monitoring waters on land. This is particularly the case for the SWOT mission, which is expected to revolutionize land surface hydrology. Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 37, No. 2, 2016

Author : Qiuhong Tang,Taikan Oki
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118971765

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Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change by Qiuhong Tang,Taikan Oki Pdf

The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes is a comprehensive volume that investigates the changes in the terrestrial water cycle and the natural and anthropogenic factors that cause these changes. This volume brings together recent progress and achievements in large-scale hydrological observations and numerical simulations, specifically in areas such as in situ measurement network, satellite remote sensing and hydrological modeling. Our goal is to extend and deepen our understanding of the changes in the terrestrial water cycle and to shed light on the mechanisms of the changes and their consequences in water resources and human well-being in the context of global change. Volume highlights include: Overview of the changes in the terrestrial water cycle Human alterations of the terrestrial water cycle Recent advances in hydrological measurement and observation Integrated modeling of the terrestrial water cycle The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes will be a valuable resource for students and professionals in the fields of hydrology, water resources, climate change, ecology, geophysics, and geographic sciences. The book will also be attractive to those who have general interests in the terrestrial water cycle, including how and why the cycle changes.

Author : Edwin T. Engman,R.J. Gurney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:49015001163097

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Remote Sensing in Hydrology by Edwin T. Engman,R.J. Gurney Pdf

Information dealing with hydrologic cycle, precipitation, snow hydrology, evapotranspiration, runoff, soil moisture, groundwater, water quality, and water resources management and monitoring

Author : Ni-Bin Chang,Yang Hong
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138072575

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Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing by Ni-Bin Chang,Yang Hong Pdf

Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing: Perspectives and Applications integrates advances in hydrologic science and innovative remote sensing technologies. Raising the visibility of interdisciplinary research on water resources, it offers a suite of tools and platforms for investigating spatially and temporally continuous hydrological variables and processes. Illustrated in color, this book examines components in the hydrologic cycle with a range of space and time scales. Organized into five parts, it explores hydrologic remote sensing at the local, urban, watershed, and regional scales, as well as the continental and global scale. Contributors address questions such as What are the local, watershed, and regional differences in soil moisture and evapotranspiration when using different measurement methods and models? How can we fit the scenarios of global warming potential and the remote sensing products of snow water equivalent into hydrologic modeling to address the changing flood and drought conditions in a watershed? How can we fuse the images collected by different satellites to improve the accuracy of predictions at the global scale? Tackling these and many other topics, the book presents new techniques and methods for spaceborne, airborne, and ground-based measurements and mathematical modeling. It also discusses remote sensing image processing tools and features a wealth of real-world applications and case studies. This book is a useful reference for students, professionals, scientists, and policy makers involved in the study of global change, hydrologic science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, and the agricultural and forest sciences. It shows how hydrologic remote sensing technologies can be used more effectively to explore global change impacts and improve the design of hydrologic observatories.

Author : Wondwosen Mekonnen Seyoum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:981036661

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Satellite Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Hydrosphere for Understanding Terrestrial Water Cycle Dynamics at Different Scales by Wondwosen Mekonnen Seyoum Pdf

Water resources are important to both society and ecosystems. However, humans put pressure on water resources with stresses that are likely to be exacerbated by the change in climate. Nonetheless, the lack of continuous data availability and inadequate monitoring networks has been a challenge to the scientific community. Recent advancements in satellite-based hydrology have demonstrated hydrologic variables can be measured from space with sufficient accuracy at limited regional and global scales (GRACE's spatial resolution is 200,000 km2). Therefore, research on the enhancement of the utility of satellite products in understanding and monitoring the water cycle at local scales (with size of 5,000 km2) is necessary, especially to complement studies in the absence or malfunctioning of in-situ observations. This dissertation sought to (1) estimate the spatial and temporal variation of hydrologic fluxes and storages at different scales using satellite remote sensing data, (2) assess the efficacy of publically available data (e.g. satellite remote sensing data) on our ability to predict/understand the terrestrial water cycle and the implications for water management, and (3) measure the relative effect of human-induced (e.g. abstraction) vs. climatic variability on the terrestrial water cycle. Moreover, the potential of multi-source datasets and integrated approaches for predicting the variability were evaluated. The work presented in this research has been conducted using a combined approach of processing and interpretation of satellite data, numerical modeling, analysis of in-situ data, and statistical and geospatial analysis in an effort to overcome data paucity. The results demonstrated the capability of GRACE at measuring water storage variations on a regional scale based on results from a robust integrated hydrologic model. Further, merging GRACE data with other data sources in an ANN (Artificial Neural Network) model reproduced the observed TWS (Terrestrial Water Storage) and groundwater storage anomaly at local scales. This downscaled product also replicated the natural water storage variability due to climatic and human impacts. Finally, the relative impact between humans vs. climate variability was distinguished and measured in Ethiopia using an integrated approach that can be transferable to similar settings. The implications utilizing satellite data for improving local and regional water resources management decisions and applications are clear. This is especially true with areas lacking hydrologic monitoring networks.

Author : Venkat Lakshmi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319437446

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Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes by Venkat Lakshmi Pdf

This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote sensing of hydrological extremes: both floods and droughts. The book is divided into two distinct sections – floods and droughts – and offers a variety of techniques for monitoring each. With rapid advances in computer modelling and observing systems, floods and droughts are studied with greater precision today than ever before. Land surface models, especially over the entire Continental United States, can map the hydrological cycle at kilometre and sub-kilometre scales. In the case of smaller areas there is even higher spatial resolution and the only limiting factor is the resolution of input data. In-situ sensors are automated and the data is directly relayed to the world wide web for many hydrological variables such as precipitation, soil moisture, surface temperature and heat fluxes. In addition, satellite remote sensing has advanced to providing twice a day repeat observations at kilometre to ten-kilometre spatial scales. We are at a critical juncture in the study of hydrological extremes, and the GPM and SMAP missions as well as the MODIS and GRACE sensors give us more tools and data than were ever available before. A global variety of chapter authors provides wide-ranging perspectives and case studies that will make this book an indispensable resource for researchers, engineers, and even emergency management and insurance professionals who study and/or manage hydrological extremes.

Author : Gert A. Schultz,Edwin T. Engman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642595837

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Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Management by Gert A. Schultz,Edwin T. Engman Pdf

The book provides comprehensive information on possible applications of remote sensing data for hydrological monitoring and modelling as well as for water management decisions. Mathematical theory is provided only as far as it is necessary for understanding the underlying principles. The book is especially timely because of new programs and sensors that are or will be realised. ESA, NASA, NASDA as well as the Indian and the Brazilian Space Agency have recently launched satellites or developed plans for new sensor systems that will be especially pertinent to hydrology and water management. New techniques are presented whose structure differ from conventional hydrological models due to the nature of remotely sensed data.

Author : Nicolas Baghdadi,Mehrez Zribi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780081011812

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Land Surface Remote Sensing in Continental Hydrology by Nicolas Baghdadi,Mehrez Zribi Pdf

The continental hydrological cycle is one of the least understood components of the climate system. The understanding of the different processes involved is important in the fields of hydrology and meteorology. In this volume the main applications for continental hydrology are presented, including the characterization of the states of continental surfaces (water state, snow cover, etc.) using active and passive remote sensing, monitoring the Antarctic ice sheet and land water surface heights using radar altimetry, the characterization of redistributions of water masses using the GRACE mission, the potential of GNSS-R technology in hydrology, and remote sensing data assimilation in hydrological models. This book, part of a set of six volumes, has been produced by scientists who are internationally renowned in their fields. It is addressed to students (engineers, Masters, PhD) , engineers and scientists, specialists in remote sensing applied to hydrology. Through this pedagogical work, the authors contribute to breaking down the barriers that hinder the use of Earth observation data. Provides clear and concise descriptions of modern remote sensing methods Explores the most current remote sensing techniques with physical aspects of the measurement (theory) and their applications Provides chapters on physical principles, measurement, and data processing for each technique described Describes optical remote sensing technology, including a description of acquisition systems and measurement corrections to be made

Author : Luis García,Diego Rodríguez,Marcus Wijnen,Inge Pakulski
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781464804762

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Earth Observation for Water Resources Management by Luis García,Diego Rodríguez,Marcus Wijnen,Inge Pakulski Pdf

Water systems are building blocks for poverty alleviation, shared growth, sustainable development, and green growth strategies. They require data from in-situ observation networks. Budgetary and other constraints have taken a toll on their operation and there are many regions in the world where the data are scarce or unreliable. Increasingly, remote sensing satellite-based earth observation is becoming an alternative. This book briefly describes some key global water challenges, perspectives for remote sensing approaches, and their importance for water resources-related activities. It describes eight key types of water resources management variables, a list of sensors that can produce such information, and a description of existing data products with examples. Earth Observation for Water Resources Management provides a series of practical guidelines that can be used by project leaders to decide whether remote sensing may be useful for the problem at hand and suitable data sources to consider if so. The book concludes with a review of the literature on reliability statistics of remote-sensed estimations.

Author : Shunlin Liang,Jiancheng Shi,Xiaoxiong Xiong,James J. Butler,Melba M. Crawford,Jing M. Chen,Tatiana V. Loboda,Mitchell D. Goldberg,Quanan Zheng,Stephen J. Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Remote sensing
ISBN : 0128140941

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Comprehensive Remote Sensing by Shunlin Liang,Jiancheng Shi,Xiaoxiong Xiong,James J. Butler,Melba M. Crawford,Jing M. Chen,Tatiana V. Loboda,Mitchell D. Goldberg,Quanan Zheng,Stephen J. Walsh Pdf