PA23B:
Success Stories of How Remote Sensing Is Serving Water Resources Planning and Management Posters

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Session ID#: 27002

Session Description:
While the first earth observing satellites were launched more than fifty years ago, the term "valley of death" has been used to portray the difficulties to turn remote sensing data into direct societal applications (NRC 2001, Hossain 2014). This session will present a collection of international applications of remote sensing that are successfully supporting water resources management and planning. The presentations will focus on case studies where management and planning tasks benefitted from pre-processed remote sensing data and applications. Participants will elaborate on the decision context of the case studies, how earth observations provided increased informational benefits to support decision-making, how the data was pre-processed and presented to address practitioners’ needs, and the challenges encountered. This session is focused on how the availability of analysis-ready remote sensing data and applications for water resources management can make a difference in the world for the benefit of society.
Primary Convener:  Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, The World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Martha Anderson, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, Bradley Doorn, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States and Stefanie Herrmann, The World Bank, Washington DC, United States
Chairs:  Bradley Doorn, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States, Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, The World Bank, Washington, DC, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, United States and Stefanie Herrmann, The World Bank, Washington DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stefanie Herrmann, The World Bank, Washington DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Remotely-Sensed Mapping of Irrigation Area in the Chu-Talas River Basin in Central Asia and Application to Compliance Monitoring of Transboundary Water Sharing (234761)
Tobias Siegfried, hydrosolutions GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland, Timo Herberz, TU Berlin, Engineering, Berlin, Germany and Silvan Ragettli, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Applications of Satellite Data to Support Improvements in Irrigation and Groundwater Management in California (268211)
Forrest S Melton1, Justin L Huntington2, Lee Johnson3,4, Alberto Guzman1,5, Charles Morton2, Isabel Zaragoza6, Jason Dexter6,7, Carolyn Rosevelt6,7, Andrew Michaelis6,7, Ramakrishna R Nemani1, Michael Cahn8, Bekele Temesgen9, Ricardo Trezza9, Kent Frame9, Simon Eching9, Robyn Grimm10 and Maurice Hall10, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (3)CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, (4)CSU Monterey Bay, NASA ARC-CREST, Moffett Field, United States, (5)NASA ARC-CREST, Seaside, United States, (6)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, (7)NASA ARC-CREST, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (8)UC Cooperative Extension, Salinas, United States, (9)California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, (10)Environmental Defense Fund, Sacramento, CA, United States
A review of the PERSIANN family global satellite precipitation data products (282043)
Phu Nguyen1, Mohammed Ombadi2, Hamed Ashouri3,4, Andrea Thorstensen5, Kuo-lin Hsu6, Dan Braithwaite3, Soroosh Sorooshian6 and Logan William7, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Newark, CA, United States, (5)NOAA/NWS/North Central River Forecast Center, Chanhassen, MN, United States, (6)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (7)International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM), Alexandria, VA, United States
LEVERAGING TRILLIONS OF PIXELS FOR FLOOD MITIGATION DECISIONS SUPPORT IN THE RIO SALADO BASIN, ARGENTINA (283678)
Jonathan Sullivan1, Devin Routh2, Beth Tellman3, Colin Doyle4 and Jared N Tomlin2, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Cloud to Street, New York, NY, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development and Environment, Tucson, United States, (4)Cloud to Street, New York, United States
Remote Sensing of Water Quality in Multipurpose Reservoirs: Case Study Applications in Indonesia, Mexico, and Uruguay (296935)
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, United States, Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, The World Bank, Water Global Practice, Washington D.C., United States and Diego Rodriquez, The World Bank, Washington, United States
Remote sensing based crop type mapping and evapotranspiration estimates at the farm level in arid regions of the globe (299258)
Mutlu Ozdogan, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Madison, WI, United States, Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, The World Bank, Water Global Practice, Washington D.C., United States and Martha Anderson, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States
Transforming Atmospheric and Remotely-Sensed Information to Hydrologic Predictability in South Asia (301634)
Thomas M Hopson1, Emily E Riddle2, Daniel Broman3, G Robert Brakenridge4, Charon M Birkett5, Prof. Albert Kettner6, Kevin Michael Sampson7, Jennifer Boehnert8, Satya Priya9, Dan C Collins10, Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein11, William Young12, Deepak Singh9 and Akm Saiful Islam13, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Water Resources Planning and Operations Support Group, Denver, CO, United States, (4)CSDMS Facility, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Boulder, United States, (8)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (9)World Bank, New Delhi, India, (10)Climate Prediction Center College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (11)Israel Institute for Biological Research, Department of Environmental Physics, Environmental Sciences Division, Ness Ziona, Israel, (12)World Bank, Washington, DC, United States, (13)Bangladesh Institute of Water and Flood Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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