Chairs: Forrest S Melton, CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, Susan C Steele-Dunne, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, Netherlands and Dalia Bach Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners: John D Bolten, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners: Forrest S Melton, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: John D Bolten, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Estimation of Spatially Distributed Evapotranspiration Using Remote Sensing and a Relevance Vector Machine
Inga Maslova1, Roula Bachour2, Wynn R Walker2, Andres M Ticlavilca3 and Mac McKee4, (1)American University, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah Water Research Laboratory, LOGAN, UT, United States, (4)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Controls on Algal Bloom Propagation in the Kuwait Bay Utilizing: An Integrated Remote Sensing and Statistical Approach
Cameron J. Manche1, Mohamed Sultan2, Racha Elkadiri3, Saif Uddin4, Ahmad Al-Dousari5 and Kyle Chouinard1, (1)Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (2)Western Michigan Univ, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (3)western michigan university, KALAMAZOO, MI, United States, (4)Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Environmental Sciences, Khaldya, Kuwait, (5)Kuwait University, Geography, Kuwait City, Kuwait
An Integrated Lysimeter and Satellite Imagery Approach for Estimating Crop Evapotranspiration
Dave Goorahoo, California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA, United States, Florence Cassel-Sharma, CSU Fresno, Fresno, CA, United States, Lee Johnson, Univ. Corp. Monterey Bay, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Forrest S Melton, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
Spatial Downscaling of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Using Support Vector Machine in Northeast Asia
Heewon Moon, Sungkyunkwan University, Civil, Architectural and Environmental System Engineering, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Minha Choi, Sungkyunkwan University, Water Resources and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Water Resources, Graduate School of Water Resources, Suwon, South Korea and Daeun Kim, Hanyang University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Hydrogeologic Aspects of GRACE Modeling: A Case Study of the Upper Mississippi Basin
Alla Skaskevych1, Jejung Lee1, Frederick S Policelli2, John D Bolten2 and John L David2,3, (1)University of Missouri Kansas City, Geosciences, Kansas City, MO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Remote sensing of water quality and contaminants in the California Bay-Delta
Cedric G Fichot1, Bryan D Downing2, Lisamarie Windham-Myers3, Mark C Marvin-DiPasquale3, Brian A Bergamaschi4, David R Thompson5 and Michelle M Gierach1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Management of Egypt’s Surface and Groundwater Resources: Present and Future
Mohamed Sultan1, Mohamed Ahmed1,2, Eugene Yan3, Adam Milewski4, Lamees Mohamed1 and Abotalib Zaki Abotalib Farag1, (1)Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (2)Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, (3)Argonne Natl Lab-Bldg 203, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Understanding the paleohydrological setting of the Arabian Peninsula: An integrated approach
Mustafa Kemal Emil1, Mohamed Sultan1, Neil Colrick Sturchio2, Mohamed Ahmed1,3 and Kyle Chouinard1, (1)Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (3)Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
How Much Do We Know about the Storage Changes in the Major River Basins of the World? Analysis of Storage Change from GRACE
Naga Manohar Velpuri, ARTS Contractor, 2ASRC InuTeq LLC, Contractor to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Gabriel B Senay, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and James P Verdin, USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States