Satellite Remote Sensing of Groundwater: modeling, algorithm development and validation

  • Ghulam, Abduwasit (Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University) ;
  • Qin, Qiming (Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

Remote sensing has been widely used in the exploration of groundwater. In this paper, on the establishment of empirical function between ground water and soil moisture content 6S code is used to reduce uncertainties in the remote sensing of groundwater. Then ground water levels are calculated using 6S corrected and uncorrected ETM+ image along with isochronous meteorological information. Greater correspondence between field examined and satellite monitoring data is obtained from corrected image than from the uncorrected image.

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