Geos.823       Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology          (3 C.H)

Course Objectives

The proposed course is aimed to aware the students with the importance and applications of the digital terrain modeling. The students will learn the concept and will be trained using computer-based exercises to develop their capacity of deriving topographic information from the remote sensing-based digital elevation models.

Course Contents

• Hydrology and remote sensing
• Remote sensing for hydrology from field, regional to global scales (observation and models)
• Vegetation as bio-physical variable for hydrology, vegetation mapping on satellite imagery
• Vegetation indices (NDVI, SAVI and EVI ), leaf area index (LAI), interaction of incoming net radiation and vegetation, spatial and temporal effects on light extinction coefficient for heterogeneous surfaces
• Effect of vegetation on soil moisture and evapotranspiration retrieval
• In-situ meteorological and hydrological fluxes measurement
• Satellite systems providing data for hydrological applications i.e., MODIS, EUMETSAT, SMOS and SMAP; remote sensing as a tool to identify and manage hydrological extremes (floods and droughts); hydrological models; hydrology and precision agriculture.

Recommended Books:

• Campbell, G.S. and John, M.N., 1998. An introduction to Environmental Biophysics, 2nd Ed. Springer.
• Campbell, G.S., 2008. An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics, Springer.
• Dale, A.Q. and Jaffrey, C.L., 2005. Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes. CRC Press.
• Gupta, S.K., 2011. Modern Hydrology and Sustainable Water Development. Wiley-Blackwell.
• John, A.R., 2013. Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction (5th Edition), Springer.
• Schultz, G.A and Engman, E.T., 2000. Remote Sensing in Hydrology and Water Management. Springer.
• Wilfried, B., 2005. Hydrology: An Introduction. Cambridge.