Friday, August 28, 2015

Remote Sensing and Water Resources

This is not new: remote sensing is a great tool to monitor water resources such as lake levels, flooding, etc. Less known is the application of GRACE - a satellite mission that effectively weighs the Earth - and how it can be used to monitor groundwater resources. Read more here.

This image below is a nice example using the ongoing drought in California as an example:

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