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Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Management

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, University of Washington
Published 2025

Description

This textbook reflects the changing landscape of water management by combining the fields of satellite remote sensing and water management. Divided into three major sections, it begins by discussing the information that satellite remote sensing can provide about water, and then moves on to examine how it can address real-world management challenges, focusing on precipitation, surface water, irrigation management, reservoir monitoring, and water temperature tracking. The final part analyses governance and social issues that have recently been given more attention…

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Key features

  • The first textbook to fill a gap in the market at advanced undergraduate level by introducing readers to the use of satellite remote sensing for water management
  • Aims to train and educate the future workforce to be ready for emerging opportunities and challenges in the water sector for the coming decades
  • A complete first-stop resource to learn the basics of remote sensing to manage water resources, using real world examples, exercises, and tutorials to test mastery of data science concepts
  • Provides supplementary online resources to help facilitate teaching and learning: data; code; links to (public-domain) Google Earth and other datasets (NASA, for example); a solutions manual to end of chapter exercises

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