Remote Sensing Applications for Water Scarcity Assessment
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 26450
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; water resources,;stochastic hydrology; physical geography; water scarcity
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2. National Weather Center, ARRC Suite 4610, University of Oklahoma, 120 David L. Boren Blvd, Norman, OK 73072, USA
Interests: radar and satellite remote sensing; hydrology and water security; water resource engineering and GIS
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Interests: remote sensing hydrology; GIS applications in water resources
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The availability of fresh water resources in sufficient quantity is critical for human well-being, agro-ecological and socio-economic systems. Yet, determining the status of available water i.e. whether adequate, vulnerable, stressed or inadequate/scarce, using ground based hydroclimatic networks, is fraught with considerable challenges. Notably, the data tend to be unavailable, inaccessible, or discontinuous over space and time. Recently, a number of studies have demonstrated considerable promise in using remote sensing data and methodologies to overcome these limitations. As example, satellite missions, such as GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment), and its successor program GRACE-FO (GRACE Follow-On) have provided unprecedented data on complex water cycle information significantly improving our understanding of water resources occurrence, storage, fluxes and variability over time and space. Several other platforms also provide similar or complementary advantages.
This special issue calls for original contributions that utilize remote sensing technologies in innovative ways and methodologies for observing, monitoring and assessing water scarcity regionally and globally. We encourage especially contributions that utilize frameworks that merge and integrate different remote sensing observations, numerical models and algorithms to address global water scarcity assessment and prediction. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Methods and theories that utilize remote sensing platforms and data to locate, observe and predict “available water resources”.
- Contributions that refine and improve assessment of per capita water resources availability, withdrawal and use.
- Changes in available water resources over time and space in response to complex interactions between climatic variability and anthropogenic processes.
- New and emerging remote sensing applications for water scarcity monitoring that support decision making to mitigate possible conflicts over shared water resources.
Dr. Yang Hong
Dr. Emad Hasan
Dr. Guoqiang Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Climate Change and Climate variability
- GRACE
- Hydrology and Water Resources
- Remote Sensing
- Water Scarcity
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