H43O:
Remote Sensing Applications for Water Resources Management, Including Irrigation, Droughts, Floods, and Associated Water Cycle Extremes I

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Session ID#: 17216

Session Description:
Water resources management can benefit from remote sensing and hydrologic models. These tools can be especially valuable during extreme events and in data-sparse regions. Observational assets include the GPM, SMAP, Terra, Aqua, Landsat, GRACE, and Sentinel satellites, and other satellite and airborne platforms. They can support the operational water resources community in responding to climate change, increases in climate variability and the frequency of extreme events.  This session will highlight advances in the use of satellite, airborne and ground-based sensor networks to: measure the quantity/quality of hydrologic resources in the U.S. and internationally; provide information to water managers to improve water resources management; and support risk-based decision making. Topics of interest include (1) extreme events such as floods and droughts; (2) water supply and snow water resource monitoring; (3) evapotranspiration, soil moisture, ground water, and agricultural water management; and (4) water quality.
Primary Convener:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC-HSL & Morgan State University-DRED, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States and Forrest S Melton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Chairs:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC-HSL & Morgan State University-DRED, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC-HSL & Morgan State University-DRED, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Satellite Remote Sensing is Key to Water Cycle Integrator (Invited) (172793)
Toshio Koike, ICHARM International Centre for Water Hazard And Risk Management, Tsukuba, Japan; The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Northern Eurasia Precipitation Extremes from Satellite and Rain Gauge Data (131546)
Olga Zolina, LGGE, Saint Martin d'Heres, France; IORAS, Moscow, Russia
Implementation of remote sensing data for flood forecasting (132386)
Stefania Grimaldi1, Yuan Li2, Valentijn R N Pauwels3, Jeffrey P Walker4 and Ashley James Wright3, (1)Monash University, Clayton, Australia, (2)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (3)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (4)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia
A Satellite Based Method for Wetland Inundation Mapping (187470)
Courtney Di Vittorio, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Aris P. Georgakakos, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Georgia Water Resources Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States
Enhancing the USDA Global Crop Assessment Decision Support System Using SMAP Soil Moisture Data (152232)
John D Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Iliana E Mladenova, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Wade T Crow, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States and Curt A Reynolds, USDA FAS, Washington, DC, United States
Characterizing Seasonal Drought, Water Supply Pattern and Their Impact on Vegetation Growth Using Satellite Soil Moisture Data, GRACE Water Storage and Precipitation Observations (191138)
Geruo A1, Isabella Velicogna1, John S Kimball2, Jinyang Du3, Youngwook Kim3, Eni G Njoku4 and Andreas Colliander5, (1)Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, United States, (2)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Drought assessment using multi-sattelite remote sensing in Brazil (123449)
Vitor Rebello1, Augusto Getirana2, Otto Corrêa Rotunno Filho1 and Venkataraman Lakshmi3, (1)UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States
Remote-Sensing and Automated Water Resources Tracking: Near Real-Time Decision Support for Water Managers Facing Drought and Flood (Invited) (180198)
Matthew Edward Reiter1, Nathan Elliott1, Sam Veloz1, Fayvor Love1, Doug Moody1, Catherine Hickey1, Michael Fitzgibbon1, Mark Reynolds2 and Rachel Esralew3, (1)Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, United States, (2)The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, United States, (3)U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, CA, United States

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