Applications of Remote Sensing/ GIS in Water Resources and Flooding Risk Managements

• Main Author: Hongjie Xie (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Xianwei Wang /Ed. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Environmental economics; GIS; Groundwater; Rainfall Measurements; Design Storm; Water Body; Runoff Simulation; Remote Sensing; Glaciers; Flooding; Soil Moisture
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Remote sensing and GIS play critical roles in water resource and flood inundation mapping and risk management. Remote sensing provides data sources for mapping water resources (snow and glaciers, water bodies, soil moisture and groundwater), measuring hydrological fluxes (ET, precipitation and river...