Special Issue "Remote Sensing Approaches to Groundwater Management and Mapping"

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Chuen-Fa Ni
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Graduate Institute of Applied Geology, National Central University, No. 300, Zhongda Rd., Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan
Interests: groundwater modeling; hydraulic tests; stochastic hydrogeology; inverse problems; land subsidence; surface water and groundwater interactions; submarine groundwater discharge
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Dr. Jiun-Yee Yen
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Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University, No. 1, Sec. 2, Dahsueh Rd., Soufeng, Hualien 97401, Taiwan
Interests: surface deformation; sediment provenance; tectonic geomorphology (fluvial geomorphology)

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Groundwater is one of the essential freshwater resources in the world. Sustainable use of groundwater resources in aquifers relies on understanding water storage and water balance in the aquifer system. Remote sensing has become a useful technique to provide overviews of water cycle components on regional-scale problems. Recent developments of remote sensing technologies have made significant improvements in spatial and temporal resolution. Observations and models from remote sensing techniques are useful resources for monitoring and management of groundwater resources.

The applications of remote sensing to groundwater studies present many challenges that cover a wide variety of technical and scientific disciplines. These challenges include sensors, data fusion, data validation, models, and field investigations relevant to groundwater resource exploration, management, and associated groundwater-induced hazards such as land subsidence, sinkholes, and slope stability. In this Special Issue, we encourage submissions that focus on addressing advanced remote sensing approaches for exploring and managing groundwater resources. This Special Issue welcomes high-quality submissions that provide the community with the most recent advancements on all aspects of remote sensing technologies and applications, including but not limited to:

  1. Monitoring and management of groundwater resources;
  2. Estimation of groundwater recharge and discharge;
  3. Interactions between groundwater and surface water;
  4. Groundwater potential mapping;
  5. Monitoring of groundwater storage;
  6. Groundwater vulnerability mapping;
  7. Pumping-induced land subsidence;
  8. Groundwater and geohazards;
  9. Other topics on applications of remote sensing technologies to groundwater management and mapping.

Dr. Chuen-Fa Ni
Dr. Jiun-Yee Yen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Groundwater resources
  • Groundwater exploration
  • Groundwater management
  • Groundwater recharge
  • Data fusion
  • Data validation
  • Modeling
  • Land subsidence
  • Geohazards

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Space-Time Evolutions of Land Subsidence in the Choushui River Alluvial Fan (Taiwan) from Multiple-Sensor Observations
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(12), 2281; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122281 - 10 Jun 2021
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Land subsidence is a significant problem around the world that can increase the risk of flooding, damage to infrastructure, and economic loss. Hence, the continual monitoring of subsidence is important for early detection, mechanism understanding, countermeasure implementation, and deformation prediction. In this study, [...] Read more.
Land subsidence is a significant problem around the world that can increase the risk of flooding, damage to infrastructure, and economic loss. Hence, the continual monitoring of subsidence is important for early detection, mechanism understanding, countermeasure implementation, and deformation prediction. In this study, we used multiple-sensor observations from the Continuous Global Positioning System (CGPS), the small baseline subset (SBAS) algorithm, interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (InSAR), precise leveling, multi-layer compaction monitoring wells (MLCWs), and groundwater observation wells (GWs) to show the spatial and temporal details of land subsidence in the Choushui River alluvial fan (CRAF), Taiwan, from 1993 to 2019. The results showed that significant land subsidence has occurred along the coastal areas in the CRAF, and most of the inland subsidence areas have also experienced higher subsidence rates (>30 mm/yr). The analysis of subsidence along the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) revealed a newly formed subsidence center between Tuku and Yuanchang Townships in Yunlin, with high subsidence rates ranging from 30 to 70 mm/yr. We propose a map showing, for the first time, the distribution of deep compactions occurring below 300 m depth in the CRAF. Full article
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