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Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Management

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The authors of this book have been approached by consulting engineers: "You know about remote sensing and thus you can obtain hydrological information where no data exist, even without ground measurements, so that I can design the required capacity of a drinking water supply reservoir in a developing country. " On the other hand, the authors have been told: "Remote sensing is not of much use since it is still impossible to estimate ground water resources or surface water flows from remote sensing data. " The major aim of this book is to correct such unjustified illusions as well as exaggerated criticism by providing the reader with sound information on the potential - and the limitations - of remote sensing in the field of hydrology and water management. The book is meant to be a reference and text; it is not a collection of papers from some meeting. The book is intended to provide methods to help the readers solve their own problems in hydrology and water management. Therefore, scientific issues are presented only as far as they are necessary for the application of remote sensing. The reader will see that in some fields, (e. g. evapotranspiration, soil moisture, hydrological modeling) the scientific development is still on the way, while in others operational techniques are already available (e. g. snow melt run off-model, land use classification and detection of land use changes, flood fore casting and control).

List of contents

Preface.- About the Editors.- Authors.- Section I: Overview and Basic Principles.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Physical Principles and Technical Aspects of Remote Sensing.- 3 Processing Remotely Sensed Data: Hardware and Software Considerations.- 4 Integration of Remotely Sensed Data into Geographical Information Systems.- Section II: Remote Sensing Application to Hydrologic Monitoring and Modeling.- 5 Remote Sensing in Hydrological Modeling.- 6 Precipitation 1ll.- 7 Land-use and Catchment Characteristics.- 8 Evaporation.- 9 Soil Moisture.- 10 Remote Sensing of Surface Water.- 11 Snow and Ice.- 12 Soil Erosion.- 13 Water Quality.- 14 Groundwater.- Section III: Water Management with the Aid of Remote Sensing Data.- 15 Introduction to and General Aspects of Water Management with the aid of Remote Sensing.- 16 Flood Forecasting and Control.- 17 Irrigation and Drainage.- 18 Computation of Hydrological Data for Design of Water Projects in Ungauged River Basins.- 19 Detection of Land Cover Change Tendencies and their Effect on Water Management.- Section IV: Future Perspectives.- 20 Future Perspectives.- Appendix 20.1 Existing and Future Remote Sensing Satellites and Sensors Relevant to Hydrological Applications.- Appendix 20.2 Specification for Sensors Listed in Appendix 20.1.- List of Acronyms.

Product details

Assisted by Ger A Schultz (Editor), Gert A Schultz (Editor), Edwin T. Engman (Editor), Gert A. Schultz (Editor), T Engman (Editor), T Engman (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.09.2013
 
EAN 9783642640360
ISBN 978-3-642-64036-0
No. of pages 483
Dimensions 157 mm x 30 mm x 236 mm
Weight 764 g
Illustrations XX, 483 p. 52 illus. in color.
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Miscellaneous

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