Title :
Watersheds as a sustainable development tool
Author :
ÖZel, Mehmet Emin ; Yildirim, Hulya
Author_Institution :
Remote Sensing Center, COMU, Canakkale, Turkey
Abstract :
In Turkey, a number of watershed-based development and application projects have been under consideration and are at various phases of development. Watersheds are gaining critical roles for sustainable development programs all over the world. In this respect, it will be useful to look at the entire watershed boundaries of Turkey. The list taken from State Hydrolics Works of Turkey (DSI), contains 26 watersheds. In this communication we review the very basic information about Turkish Watersheds and discuss some criteria about their classification based on EU Land-Water-MED Program.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; geographic information systems; hydrological techniques; remote sensing; sustainable development; DSI; EU Land-Water-MED Program; application projects; state hydrolics works; sustainable development programs; sustainable development tool; watershed boundaries; watershed-based development; Application software; Geographic Information Systems; Physics computing; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; Space technology; Sustainable development; Water resources;
Conference_Titel :
Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2003. RAST '03. International Conference on. Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Istanbul, Turkey
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8142-4
DOI :
10.1109/RAST.2003.1303994
