GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques in Land- and Water-management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Why would we use a GIS database and remote sensing in irrigation management?

   • Marinus G. Bos

   Pages 1-8

3. Can WARMAP save the Aral Sea?

   • Albert Van Dijk, Rob Den Haan

   Pages 9-15

4. Remote sensing for inland water quality detection and monitoring: State-of-the-art application in Friesland waters

   • Arnold G. Dekker, Steef Peters, Robert Vos, Machteld Rijkeboer

   Pages 17-38

5. Use of remotely sensed images by SPOT in hydrologic modelling

   • Natalie Lorenz, Marc Van Dijk, Jaap Kwadijk

   Pages 39-53

6. Measuring and analysing of flood waves in Rhine river; an application of laser altimetry

   • Ardis E. Bollweg, René Van Heerd

   Pages 55-67

7. Soil moisture conditions in The Netherlands during the summer of 1995 interpreted from satellite measurements

   • Wim Bastiaanssen, Henk Pelgrum, Gerbert Roerink, Karel Soeterik

   Pages 69-86

8. GIS and watermanagement: Where are we heading to?

   • Eric J. Van Capelleveen, Fred H. W. M. Van Den Bosch

   Pages 87-92

Managing land and water is a complex affair. Decisions must be made constantly to allocate and use natural resources. Decision and action in any use of resources often have strong interactions and side-effects on others, therefore it is extremely important to monitor and forecast the impacts of the decisions very carefully. Reliable information and clear data manipulation procedures are compulsory for monitoring and forecasting.
Remote Sensing has considerable potential to provide reliable information. A Geographic Information System is an easy tool for manipulating and analysing the data in a clear and fast way. This book describes in seven practical examples how GIS and Remote Sensing techniques are successfully applied in land and water management.

• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• database
• remote sensing
• satellite
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

• DHV Consultants, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

  A. Dijk

• International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI), Wageningen, The Netherlands

  M. G. Bos

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