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Overview of Geospatial Technologies for Land and Water Resources Management

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Geospatial Technologies for Land and Water Resources Management

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Land and water resources management are essential for the future sustainability of the environment. The studies on land and water resources require basic geo-referenced data, such as land use-land cover (LULC), soil maps, and digital elevation models (DEMs) for capturing the spatio-temporal variations of thematic layers. These data can be easily obtained from remote sensing images and limited ground truth. Hydro-meteorological data, such as precipitation, air, land surface temperature, solar radiation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, river and lakes water levels, river discharge, and terrestrial water storage, can also be derived from remote sensing as well as from point-based ground instruments. Then, studies can be carried out at various spatio-temporal scales.

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  1. Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247 667, India

    Ashish Pandey & Gagandeep Singh

  2. Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC), Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India

    V. M. Chowdary

  3. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Mukunda Dev Behera & A. Jaya Prakash

  4. Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering and Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-2117, USA

    V. P. Singh

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Pandey, A., Singh, G., Chowdary, V.M., Behera, M.D., Prakash, A.J., Singh, V.P. (2022). Overview of Geospatial Technologies for Land and Water Resources Management. In: Pandey, A., Chowdary, V.M., Behera, M.D., Singh, V.P. (eds) Geospatial Technologies for Land and Water Resources Management. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 103. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90479-1_1

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