Applications of Remote Sensing/ GIS in Water Resources and Flooding Risk Managements

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Title

Applications of Remote Sensing/ GIS in Water Resources and Flooding Risk Managements

Subject

Environmental Sciences

Description

Remote sensing and GIS play critical roles in water resource and flood inundation mapping and risk management. Remote sensing provides data sources for mapping water resources (snow and glaciers, water bodies, soil moisture and groundwater), measuring hydrological fluxes (ET, precipitation and river discharge), and monitoring drought and flooding inundation, while GIS provides the best tools for water resources, drought and flooding risk management and for setting up hydrologic models, inputting data processing and output analyses and visualizations

Creator

Hongjie Xie (Ed.) --- Xianwei Wang /Ed.)

Source

https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/684

Publisher

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Date

2018

Contributor

Baihaqi

Rights

Creative Commons

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Files

Citation

Hongjie Xie (Ed.) --- Xianwei Wang /Ed.), “Applications of Remote Sensing/ GIS in Water Resources and Flooding Risk Managements,” Open Educational Resource (OER) - USK Library, accessed April 24, 2025, http://202.4.186.74:8004/oer/items/show/4211.

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