H44D:
Remote Sensing Applications for Water Resources Management, Including Irrigation, Droughts, Floods, and Associated Water Cycle Extremes II

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Session ID#: 17221

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 Goddard Space Flight Center, HSL, 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:  Mirela G Tulbure, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, United States and Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mirela G Tulbure, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, 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:

Characterizing Snowpack Drought and Drought Recovery in the Sierra Nevada (USA) (182701)
Steven A Margulis1, Gonzalo Cortés2, Manuela Girotto3, Laurie Huning2, Dongyue Li4 and Michael T Durand5, (1)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (5)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Snowmelt runoff prediction through spatial characterization of melt-based microwave response (186436)
Carrie Vuyovich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jennifer M Jacobs, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States
Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Trends in Surface Water and Flooding Extent from Three Decades of Seasonally Continuous Landsat Time Series at Subcontinental Scale: Product Development and Applications (198107)
Mirela G Tulbure1, Mark Broich2, Stephen V. Stehman3, Iurii Shendryk4, Valentin Heimhuber5, Anil Kommareddy6 and Robbi Bishop-Taylor5, (1)North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, United States, (2)University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)State University of New York, Department of Sustainable Resources Management, Syracuse, United States, (4)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (6)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Using remote sensing time series to model the impact of changing flooding regimes on riparian vegetation in Australia’s most important river basin (167788)
Mark Broich, University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Mirela G Tulbure, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, United States, Jan Verbesselt, Wageningen University, Department of Environmental Science, Wageningen, Netherlands and Qinchuan Xin, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Geography and Planning, Guangzhou, China
Predicting the variability of water resources in eleven global river basins using multivariate and decision tree analysis with satellite data (121320)
Jessica V Fayne, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States and Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States
Automated quantification of surface water fraction using Landsat and Sentinel-2 data (136116)
Ben DeVries1, Chengquan Huang1, Wenli Huang1, John W. Jones2, Megan W Lang3 and Irena F Creed4, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)USGS Eastern Geographic Science Center, Reston, VA, United States, (3)United States Fish and Wildlife Survey, National Wetlands Inventory Program, Falls Church, VA, United States, (4)University of Western Ontario, Department of Biology, London, ON, Canada
Mapping the Dynamics of Surface Water Extent 1999-2015 with Landsat 5, 7, and 8 Archives (Invited) (186779)
Amy Hudson Pickens1, Matthew Hansen1, Matthew Hancher2 and Peter Potapov3, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)Google, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes (Invited) (146904)
Jean-François Pekel1, Andrew Cottam1, Noel Gorelick2 and Alan Belward1, (1)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (2)Google, Mountian View, CA, United States

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