Title :
WATERMED - WATer use Efficiency in natural vegetation and agricultural areas by Remote sensing in the MEDiterranean Basin
Author :
Sobrino, José A. ; Raïssouni, Naoufal ; Olioso, Albert ; Hasager, Charlotte Bay ; Belaid, ïMohamed At ; Rahman, Shah Atiqur ; Chehbouni, A. Ghani
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Thermodynamics, Valencia Univ., Spain
Abstract :
The general objective of the WATERMED project is to develop a comprehensive method for the study of the water use and the resistance to the drought of the natural and irrigated vegetation in the Mediterranean Basin by means of a combined historical and current space-based remote sensing database, vegetation models and field measurements. The general concept is to integrate all available data of the studied environments
Keywords :
agriculture; hydrology; natural resources; remote sensing; vegetation mapping; water supply; Egypt; Guadalentin Basin; Mediterranean Basin; Morocco; Rhone valley; SE France; SE Spain; Sinai Peninsula; Tensift Al Haouz region; WATERMED project; agricultural areas; environments; field measurements; historical database; irrigated vegetation; natural vegetation; resistance drought; space-based remote sensing database; vegetation models; water use efficiency; Area measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Physics; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spatial resolution; Testing; Thermodynamics; Vegetation mapping; Wind energy;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978289
