H114
Using Remote Sensing to Improve Water Management

Session ID#: 161731

Session Description:
Satellite data is increasingly used to support decision-making for water resources management, complementing and enhancing in-situ data to make important decisions. Managing water is challenging due to rising demand, climate change and population growth. This session explores use of remotely-sensed Earth observations (EO) to inform water decisions. Recent advances in sensor technology, satellite data products and modeling have improved monitoring of key parts of the water cycle including precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, snow, irrigation and groundwater. Presentations will highlight advances in water management through the innovative use of EO and modeling, and strategies for delivering impactful solutions to decision makers.
Index Terms:

1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]


Primary Convener:  John D Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Sarah Brennan, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States, Amber Jenkins, NASA Western Water Applications Office, Pasadena, CA, United States and Amber Jean McCullum, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Amber Jean McCullum, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Robustness of Gridded Precipitation Products in Hydrological Assessment for Vietnam River basins (1048540)
Thanh Nhan Duc Tran1, Binh Quang Nguyen2, Manh-Hung Le3, Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi4, John D Bolten5 and Aashutosh Aryal1, (1)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)The University of Danang-University of Science and Technology, Water Resources Engineering, Danang, Vietnam, (3)NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Washington, United States, (4)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Utility of Satellite-Based Soil Moisture in Improving Crop Yield Forecasting over Agricultural Zones in Argentina (1053274)
Tasnuva Rouf, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Manh-Hung Le, NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Washington, United States, John D Bolten, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Esteban Julian Copati, Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
Advancing domestic and international water management capabilities with a global daily snow cover and albedo product (1068359)
Karl Rittger1, Keith N Musselman1, McKenzie Skiles2, Timbo Stillinger3, Ned Bair3, Mark C Serreze4, Mary J. Brodzik5 and Kenneth D Mankoff5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States
 
Improving Irrigation Water Management along the Lower Colorado River, USA, Using Sentinel 1 & 2 (1072914)
Andrew N French1, Charles Anthony Sanchez2, Mazin Saber3, Troy Wirth4, Andrew Scott4, John Shields4 and Elzbieta Wisniewski5, (1)USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture (YCEDA), Yuma, AZ, United States, (4)Bureau of Reclamation Boulder City, Boulder City, United States, (5)USDA ARS, Water Management and Conservation Research Unit, Maricopa, AZ, United States
 
Estimating agricultural water consumption and irrigation efficiency in California using machine learning and remote sensing (1075705)
Anna Boser, University of California Santa Barbara, Berkeley, CA, United States, Tamma Carleton, University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, United States, Ashley Larsen, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, John T Reager II, University California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Kelly K Caylor, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Earth Observation, Climate Change and Water Security: Developing New Tools and Policy to Support River Basin and Watershed Level Decision-Making (1082637)
David L Wegner, Woolpert Engineering, Strategic Consulting, Tucson, DC, United States
 
Can Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration be used for yield prediction and water stress detection in smallholder rice fields? (1087854)
Rouhin Mitra1, Claude Kayijuka2, Valens Nkundabashaka3, Mitchell Thomas4, Veronica Fritz5, Niyonkuru Rose6, Uwera Marie Grace3, Leul Gezehegn7 and Mekonnen Gebremichael8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Rwanda, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Nyagatare, Rwanda, (3)University of Rwanda, Irrigation and Drainage, Nyagatare, Rwanda, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)University of Missouri Columbia, College of Engineering, Columbia, MO, United States, (6)University of Rwanda, Irrigation and Drainange, Nyagatare, Rwanda, (7)Freelance Consultancy, Los Angeles, United States, (8)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Comparing 1-km SMAP to Modeled Soil Moisture in Colorado Basin Testbeds (1090150)
Thomas Piechota, Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States, Bin Fang, University of South Carolina, School of Earth Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States, William P Miller, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Patrick Kormos, National Weather Service Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, United States
 
Evaluating the Use of “Goodness‐of‐Fit” Metrics in GRACE Validation: GRACE Accuracy for Monitoring Groundwater Dynamics. (1103934)
Mohamed Akl, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom; Tanta University, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta, Egypt and Brian F. Thomas, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
 
Determining Crop Coefficients Using Remote Sensing for the Maipo River Valley Basin in Chile (1127328)
Benjamin Goffin1, Rishudh Thakur2, Sarah Da Conceição Carlos3, Duncan Srsic4, Caroline Williams5, Kenton W Ross6, Fernando Neira7, Carlos Patricio Calvo Cortes-Monroy7, Fernando Vasquez8, Andres Rodriguez8 and Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi9, (1)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Luther College, Biology and Environmental Studies, Decorah, United States, (4)The Ohio State University, Geography, Columbus, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA DEVELOP, Hampton, United States, (6)NASA DEVELOP Program, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)Centro de Información de Recursos Naturales, Providencia, Chile, (8)Embassy of Chile, Agricultural Office, Washington, United States, (9)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, United States
 
Theory-Backed Training as a Necessary Piece to Successful Technology Transition: A Case Study of Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration and the State of New Mexico (1127886)
Holland Hatch1, Ben Jensen2, Scott Davidoff3, Julie Valdez4, Matthew Nelson4, Savannah Cooley3, Gregory Halverson5, Zoë von Allmen1, Ryan Joshi2, Christabel Naddour2, Kellianne Bogart2, Jonathan Do2 and Joshua B. Fisher2, (1)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Orange, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)New Mexico Office of the State Engineer, Santa Fe, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Effects of Calibration Metric Selection and Regularization Strategies on Simulated Spatial Patterns (1127977)
Eduardo Muñoz-Castro1, Nicolas Vasquez1, Pablo A. Mendoza1,2, Naoki Mizukami3 and Ximena Vargas4, (1)Universidad de Chile, Department of Civil Engineering, Santiago, Chile, (2)Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Santiago, Chile, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Chile, Department of Civil Engineering, Santiago, Chile
 
Monitoring and Forecasting Reservoir Evaporation for the Western US (1128956)
Bingjie Zhao1, Christopher Pearson2, Justin L Huntington2, George H. Allen3, Kathleen Holmes4, Kenneth C Nowak5, Thomas Ott2, Gang Zhao6, ChiHsiang Huang7, Shuai Zhang7 and Huilin Gao7, (1)Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (4)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (5)Bureau of Reclamation Research Office, Lakewood, CO, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, (7)Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States
 
Towards Generalizable Groundwater Withdrawal Predictions: How Much Data Do We Need? (1132600)
Dawit Asfaw1, Ryan Smith2, Sayantan Majumdar2, Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi3, Katherine Grote4 and James J Butler Jr5, (1)Colorado State University, Geoscience, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (3)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, United States, (4)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering, Rolla, MO, United States, (5)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WATER AND LAND PRODUCTIVITY USING WATER ACCOUNTING PLUS FRAMEWORK FOR PRANHITA RIVER BASIN (1138570)
Praveen Kalura1, Prabhash Kumar Mishra2, Ashish Pandey1 and Rabindra Nath Sankhua3, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, (2)National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, (3)National Water Development Agency, Hyderabad, India
 
A Soil Moisture Water Balance Approach for Tracing Green and Blue Evapotranspiration using Open Access Satellite Dataset (1144184)
Ethiopia Bisrat Zeleke, Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, United States, Belete Berhanu Kidanewold, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Climate, Hydrology and Water Resources Systems, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Assefa M Melesse, Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States
 
Calibrating Variable parameter McCarthy-Muskingum streamflow routing model using satellite signals along a scantily gauged river section (1145677)
Debi Prasad Sahoo, Bhabagrahi Sahoo and Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, School of Water Resources, Kharagpur, India
 
Evaluating Water Supply-Demand Gap using Remote Sensing for Sustainable Water Use (1145993)
Hatim M.E. Geli, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Yun Yang, USDA-ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States
 
High-Resolution Groundwater Use Estimation at Annual and Monthly Scales in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning (1152697)
Sayantan Majumdar1, Ryan Smith1, Md Fahim Hasan1, Vincent White2, Emilia Bristow2, Wade Hampton Kress2 and James R Rigby3, (1)Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (2)USGS, United States, (3)USGS, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Oxford, United States
 
Assessment of Gridded Precipitation Products for Streamflow Simulation in an Urban Andean Watershed in Colombia using SWAT (1154609)
Diver E. Marín1, Carlos Arboleda1, Esneider Zapata2 and Janet Barco3, (1)Area Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, Proyecto Sistema de Alerta Temprana de Medellín y el Valle de Aburrá (SIATA), Medellín, Colombia, (2)Area Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, Proyecto Sistema de Alerta Temprana de Medellín y el Valle de Aburrá (SIATA), Medellin, Colombia, (3)Universidad de Medellín, Medellin, Colombia
 
From High in the Sky to Deep Underground: A Synthesis of Remote Sensing Data to Develop Estimates of Groundwater Pumping in the Upper Colorado River Basin (1163362)
Nick Jadallah, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Reed M Maxwell, Princeton University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States
 
Easing the Urban Runoff Woes: Flood-prone Areas Identification Using Geographic Information System and Analytical Hierarchy Process (1166933)
Saumya Arya and Arun Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Hydro and Renewable Energy, Roorkee, India
 
High-resolution soil moisture using thermal hydraulic disaggregation for hydrological and agricultural applications in the United States (1167291)
Pang-Wei Liu1, Rajat Bindlish2, Peggy E O'Neill3, Zhengwei Yang4, Sujay V Kumar2, Wanshu Nie5, Shahryar Khalique Ahmad1 and Timothy Lahmers2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Research and Development Division, Washington, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States
 
Evaluating the Application of Remote Sensing in Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Around SoCal (1184655)
Karina Jimenez1, Yuwei Kong1, Sophia Winter2, Jasmine Summers-Evans3, Albert Cao2, Cade Mills2, Savannah McCarthy2, Max Menczer2, Kierstin Blatzheim2, Christine M Lee4 and Jennifer A Jay5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of California, Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
 
Estimation of Spatially Distributed Groundwater Recharge in Data-Scarce Regions (1185679)
Ashebir Sewale Belay, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
 
Satellite Data-Driven Vegetation Recovery for Pre- and Post-Wildfire Hydrologic and Erosion Simulation (1185687)
Mariana Dobre1, Anurag Srivastava2, Roger Lew2, Jonathan Gendron3, Mingliang Liu4, Erin S Brooks1, Jennifer C Adam3, Peter R Robichaud5 and Julie Padowski6, (1)University of Idaho, Department of Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (4)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, United States, (6)Washington State University, State of Washington Water Research Center, Pullman, WA, United States
 
Integrating Actual Surface Water Extent and Storage in Hydrologic Modeling (1190569)
Qianjin Zheng1, Adnan Rajib2 and Arushi Khare1, (1)Texas A&M University Kingsville, Environmental Engineering, Kingsville, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University Kingsville, Environmental Engineering, Kingsville, United States
 
Use of Remote Sensing-Based Curve Number for Hydrologic Modeling (1190782)
Ashma Akter Chandni, Texas A&M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States and Adnan Rajib, Assistant Professor, Cincinnati, United States
 
Is remotely sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation index (NDVI) a good predictor for crop yield in California alfalfa fields? (1191018)
Miguel Bribiesca Rodriguez, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Evaluating confined aquifer storage loss using geodesy, in-situ data and models (1197164)
Ryan Smith1, Jiawei Li2, Katherine Grote2 and James J Butler Jr3, (1)Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering, Rolla, MO, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Effect of Landsat Data Pre-processing on Reservoir Surface Area Extraction (1201190)
Ramesh Sivanpillai, University of Wyoming, Wyoming GIS Center, Laramie, United States and Abigail Gettinger, University of Wyoming, Ecosystem Science & Management, Laramie, United States
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