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Applications of remote sensing technology to U.S. Water resource managementApplications of Landsat data to assessing the available water supply in the U.S. for agricultural puposes as a program of the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications are described. Snow melt runoff predictions are performed with multitemporal Landsat imagery to measure the extent of mountain snow packs in the Rockies in order to produce stream flow forecast models. The data is used for decisions of which crops to plant, based on irrigation water which will be accessible in eleven western U.S. states. Imagery has tracked the growth of irrigated lands watered from the Ogallala aquifer in the central U.S., and is providing a data base for calculating the aquifer depletion rates. Studies are preceeding in temporally mapping the kinds of vegetation growing in the Suwannee Sound in Florida to monitor the intrusion of salt water, which would reduce the River's usefulness for irrigation. Finally, capabilities of the Thematic Mapper are reviewed.
Document ID
19830043312
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Weber, J. D.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1982
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Meeting Information
Meeting: Remote sensing of arid and semi-arid lands; International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment
Location: Cairo
Country: Egypt
Start Date: January 19, 1982
End Date: January 25, 1982
Accession Number
83A24530
Distribution Limits
Public
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