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Flood Monitoring and Assessment by Remote Sensing and GIS in China

  • Jiren, Li;Silong, Zhang;Sun, Chun-Peng
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.175-182
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    • 2002
  • The paper introduces the application of flood monitoring and assessment by remote sensing and GIS in china and describes the frame of operational system for practical performance of flood disaster mitigation. In addition, The operational system for flood monitoring and assessment in RSTAC/ MWR and its application in the floods of 1998,1999 in china are introduced.

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Pasture estimating with climate change over Mongolia using climate and NOAA/NDVI data

  • Erdenetuya, M.;Khudulmur, S.;Bolortsetseg, B.;Natsagdorj, L.;Batima, P.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.120-122
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    • 2003
  • Geographical position and associated climatic influences can be a negative environmental condition that affects sustainable use of land resources, especially pastoral livestock production. Vegetation condition of the country is sensitively changes upon climate changes and human impacts. Within last 60 years data the annual air temperature has increased in 1.66 degrees in average and the total precipitation amount had almost no change. The main goal of this work is to relate climate change within last 20 years with pasture condition, estimated by NOAA/NDVI data set.

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Spaceborne Gravity Sensors for Continental Hydrology and Geodynamic Studies

  • Shum C. K.;Han Shin-Chan;Braun Alexander
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2005
  • The currently operating NASA/GFZ Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission is designed to measure small mass changes over a large spatial scale, including the mapping of continental water storage changes and other geophysical signals in the form of monthly temporal gravity field. The European Space Agency's Gravity field and steady state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) space gravity gradiometer (SGG) mission is anticipated to determine the mean Earth gravity field with an unprecedented geoid accuracy of several cm (rms) with wavelength of 130km or longer. In this paper, we present a summary of present GRACE studies for the recovery of hydrological signals in the Amazon basin using alternative processing and filtering techniques, and local inversion to enhance the temporal and spatial resolutions by two-folds or better. Simulation studies for the potential GRACE detection of slow deformations due to Nazca-South America plate convergence and glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) signals show that these signals are at present difficult to detect without long-term data averaging and further improvement of GRACE measurement accuracy.

Monitoring Flood Disaster Using Remote Sensing Data

  • Chengcai, Zhang;Xiuwan, Chen;Gaolong, Zhu;Wenjiang, Zhang;Peng, Sun-Chun
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 1998.09a
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    • pp.280.2-286
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    • 1998
  • Flood is the main natural disaster mostly in the world. It is a care problem to prevent flood disaster generally. The frequency of flood disaster is high and the distributing field is wide, the 50 percent population and 70 percent properties distribute at the threaten field of flood disaster in China. Flood disaster has caused a huge amount of economical losses and these losses have an increasing trend. Along with the development of reducing natural disaster action, it has become one of the most attentive problems for monitoring flood, preventing flood and forecasting flood efficiently. Remote sensing has the characteristics of large spatial observing areas, wide spectrum ranges, and imaging far away from the targets, imaging capabilities all weather. Spatial remote sensing information, which records the full, processes of the disaster's occurrence and development in real-time. It is a scientific basis for management, planning and decision-making. Through systemic analyzing the RS monitoring theory, based on compounding RS information, the technology and method of monitoring flood disaster are studied.

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Remote Sensing Monitoring and Loss Estimated System of Flood Disaster based on GIS

  • Wenqiu, Wei
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.507-515
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    • 2002
  • Remote Sensing Monitoring and Loss Estimated System of Flood Disaster based on GIS is an integrated system comprised flood disaster information receiving and collection, flood disaster simulation, and flood disaster estimation. When the system receives and collects remote sensing monitoring and conventional investigation information, the distributional features of flood disaster on space and time is obtained by means of image processing and information fusion. The economic loss of flood disaster can be classified into two pus: direct economic loss and indirect economic loss. The estimation of direct economic loss applies macroscopic economic analysis methods, i.e. applying Product (Industry and Agriculture Gross Product or Gross Domestic Product - GDP) or Unit Synthetic Economic Loss Index, direct economic loss can be estimated. Estimating indirect economic loss applies reduction coefficient methods with direct economic loss. The system can real-timely ascertains flood disaster and estimates flood Loss, so that the science basis fur decision-making of flood control and relieving disaster may be provided.

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Improving an index for surface water detection

  • Hu, Yuanming;Paik, Kyungrock
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.144-144
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    • 2022
  • Identifying waterbody from remote sensing images, namely water detection, helps understand continuous redistribution of terrestrial water storage and accompanying hydrological processes. It also allows us to estimate available surface water resources and help effective water management. For this problem, NDWI (Normalized Difference Water Index) and MNDWI (Modified Normalized Difference Water Index) are widely used. Although remote sensing indexes can highlight remote sensing image in the water, the noise and the spatial information of the remote sensing image are difficult to be considered, so the accuracy is difficult to be compared with the visual interpretation (the most accurate method, but it requires a lot of labor, which makes it difficult to apply). In this study, we attempt to improve existing NDWI and MNDWI to better water detection. We establish waterbody database of South Korea first and then used it for assessing waterbody indices.

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An Improved Method for Monitoring of Soil Moisture Using NOAA-AVHRR Data

  • Fu, June;Pang, Zhiguo;Xiao, Qianguang
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.195-197
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    • 2003
  • Soil moisture is a crucial variable in research works of hydrology, meteorology and plant sciences. Adequate soil moisture is essential for plant growth; excesses and deficits of soil moisture must be considered in agricultural practices. There are already several remote sensing methods used for monitoring soil moisture, such as thermal inertia, vegetation water-supplying index, crop water stress index and multi-factor regression. In this paper, an improved method has been discussed which is based on the thermal inertia. We analyzed the problems of monitoring soil moisture using satellites at first, and then put forward an simplified method which directly uses land surface temperature differences to measure soil moisture. Also we have taken the influence of vegetation into account, and import NDVI into the model. The method was used in the study of soil moisture in Heilongjiang Province, China, and we draw the conclusion by the experiments that the model can evidently increase the precision of monitoring soil moisture.

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Biotop Mapping Using High-Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Data, GIS and GPS

  • Shin Dong-Hoon;Lee Kyoo-Seock
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.329-335
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    • 2004
  • Biotop map can be utilized for nature conservation and assessment of environmental impact for human activities in urban area. High resolution satellite images such as IKONOS and KOMPSAT1-EOC were interpreted to classify land use, hydrology, impermeable pavement ratio and vegetation for biotop mapping. Wildlife habitat map and detailed vegetation map obtained from former study results were used as ground truth data. Vegetation was investigated directly for the area where the detailed vegetation map is not available. All these maps were combined and the boundaries were delineated to produce the biotop map. Within the boundary, the characteristics of each polygon were identified, and named. This study investigates the possibility of biotop mapping using high resolution satellite remote sensing data together with field data with the goal of contributing to nature conservation in urban area.