Earth Observation for Water Resources Management

Current Use and Future Opportunities for the Water Sector

Luis García, Diego Rodríguez, Marcus Wijnen, Inge Pakulski

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781464804762
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Water systems are building blocks for poverty alleviation, shared growth, sustainable development, and green growth strategies. They require data from in-situ observation networks. Budgetary and other constraints have taken a toll on their operation and there are many regions in the world where the data are scarce or unreliable. Increasingly, remote sensing satellite-based earth observation is becoming an alternative. This book briefly describes some key global water challenges, perspectives for remote sensing approaches, and their importance for water resources-related activities. It describes eight key types of water resources management variables, a list of sensors that can produce such information, and a description of existing data products with examples. Earth Observation for Water Resources Management provides a series of practical guidelines that can be used by project leaders to decide whether remote sensing may be useful for the problem at hand and suitable data sources to consider if so. The book concludes with a review of the literature on reliability statistics of remote-sensed estimations.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• About the Editors and Authors
• Abbreviations
• Executive Summary
• Part I: Water and Earth Observations in the World Bank
• Part II: Earth Observation for Water Resources Management
• Part III: Validation of Remote Sensing–Estimated Hydrometeorological Variables
• Part IV: Concluding Remarks
• Index
• Boxes
• Back Cover